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Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001USING THE IJG JPEG LIBRARY
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DRCa73e8702012-12-31 02:52:30 +00003This file was part of the Independent JPEG Group's software:
4Copyright (C) 1994-2009, Thomas G. Lane, Guido Vollbeding.
5Modifications:
6Copyright (C) 2010, D. R. Commander.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00007For conditions of distribution and use, see the accompanying README file.
8
9
10This file describes how to use the IJG JPEG library within an application
11program. Read it if you want to write a program that uses the library.
12
13The file example.c provides heavily commented skeleton code for calling the
14JPEG library. Also see jpeglib.h (the include file to be used by application
15programs) for full details about data structures and function parameter lists.
16The library source code, of course, is the ultimate reference.
17
18Note that there have been *major* changes from the application interface
19presented by IJG version 4 and earlier versions. The old design had several
20inherent limitations, and it had accumulated a lot of cruft as we added
21features while trying to minimize application-interface changes. We have
22sacrificed backward compatibility in the version 5 rewrite, but we think the
23improvements justify this.
24
25
26TABLE OF CONTENTS
27-----------------
28
29Overview:
30 Functions provided by the library
31 Outline of typical usage
32Basic library usage:
33 Data formats
34 Compression details
35 Decompression details
36 Mechanics of usage: include files, linking, etc
37Advanced features:
38 Compression parameter selection
39 Decompression parameter selection
40 Special color spaces
41 Error handling
42 Compressed data handling (source and destination managers)
43 I/O suspension
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +000044 Progressive JPEG support
45 Buffered-image mode
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +000046 Abbreviated datastreams and multiple images
47 Special markers
48 Raw (downsampled) image data
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +000049 Really raw data: DCT coefficients
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +000050 Progress monitoring
51 Memory management
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +000052 Memory usage
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +000053 Library compile-time options
54 Portability considerations
55 Notes for MS-DOS implementors
56
57You should read at least the overview and basic usage sections before trying
58to program with the library. The sections on advanced features can be read
59if and when you need them.
60
61
62OVERVIEW
63========
64
65Functions provided by the library
66---------------------------------
67
68The IJG JPEG library provides C code to read and write JPEG-compressed image
69files. The surrounding application program receives or supplies image data a
70scanline at a time, using a straightforward uncompressed image format. All
71details of color conversion and other preprocessing/postprocessing can be
72handled by the library.
73
74The library includes a substantial amount of code that is not covered by the
75JPEG standard but is necessary for typical applications of JPEG. These
76functions preprocess the image before JPEG compression or postprocess it after
77decompression. They include colorspace conversion, downsampling/upsampling,
78and color quantization. The application indirectly selects use of this code
79by specifying the format in which it wishes to supply or receive image data.
80For example, if colormapped output is requested, then the decompression
81library automatically invokes color quantization.
82
83A wide range of quality vs. speed tradeoffs are possible in JPEG processing,
84and even more so in decompression postprocessing. The decompression library
85provides multiple implementations that cover most of the useful tradeoffs,
86ranging from very-high-quality down to fast-preview operation. On the
87compression side we have generally not provided low-quality choices, since
88compression is normally less time-critical. It should be understood that the
89low-quality modes may not meet the JPEG standard's accuracy requirements;
90nonetheless, they are useful for viewers.
91
92A word about functions *not* provided by the library. We handle a subset of
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +000093the ISO JPEG standard; most baseline, extended-sequential, and progressive
94JPEG processes are supported. (Our subset includes all features now in common
95use.) Unsupported ISO options include:
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +000096 * Hierarchical storage
97 * Lossless JPEG
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +000098 * DNL marker
99 * Nonintegral subsampling ratios
100We support both 8- and 12-bit data precision, but this is a compile-time
101choice rather than a run-time choice; hence it is difficult to use both
102precisions in a single application.
103
104By itself, the library handles only interchange JPEG datastreams --- in
105particular the widely used JFIF file format. The library can be used by
106surrounding code to process interchange or abbreviated JPEG datastreams that
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000107are embedded in more complex file formats. (For example, this library is
108used by the free LIBTIFF library to support JPEG compression in TIFF.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000109
110
111Outline of typical usage
112------------------------
113
114The rough outline of a JPEG compression operation is:
115
116 Allocate and initialize a JPEG compression object
117 Specify the destination for the compressed data (eg, a file)
118 Set parameters for compression, including image size & colorspace
119 jpeg_start_compress(...);
120 while (scan lines remain to be written)
121 jpeg_write_scanlines(...);
122 jpeg_finish_compress(...);
123 Release the JPEG compression object
124
125A JPEG compression object holds parameters and working state for the JPEG
126library. We make creation/destruction of the object separate from starting
127or finishing compression of an image; the same object can be re-used for a
128series of image compression operations. This makes it easy to re-use the
129same parameter settings for a sequence of images. Re-use of a JPEG object
130also has important implications for processing abbreviated JPEG datastreams,
131as discussed later.
132
133The image data to be compressed is supplied to jpeg_write_scanlines() from
134in-memory buffers. If the application is doing file-to-file compression,
135reading image data from the source file is the application's responsibility.
136The library emits compressed data by calling a "data destination manager",
137which typically will write the data into a file; but the application can
138provide its own destination manager to do something else.
139
140Similarly, the rough outline of a JPEG decompression operation is:
141
142 Allocate and initialize a JPEG decompression object
143 Specify the source of the compressed data (eg, a file)
144 Call jpeg_read_header() to obtain image info
145 Set parameters for decompression
146 jpeg_start_decompress(...);
147 while (scan lines remain to be read)
148 jpeg_read_scanlines(...);
149 jpeg_finish_decompress(...);
150 Release the JPEG decompression object
151
152This is comparable to the compression outline except that reading the
153datastream header is a separate step. This is helpful because information
154about the image's size, colorspace, etc is available when the application
155selects decompression parameters. For example, the application can choose an
156output scaling ratio that will fit the image into the available screen size.
157
158The decompression library obtains compressed data by calling a data source
159manager, which typically will read the data from a file; but other behaviors
160can be obtained with a custom source manager. Decompressed data is delivered
161into in-memory buffers passed to jpeg_read_scanlines().
162
163It is possible to abort an incomplete compression or decompression operation
164by calling jpeg_abort(); or, if you do not need to retain the JPEG object,
165simply release it by calling jpeg_destroy().
166
167JPEG compression and decompression objects are two separate struct types.
168However, they share some common fields, and certain routines such as
169jpeg_destroy() can work on either type of object.
170
171The JPEG library has no static variables: all state is in the compression
172or decompression object. Therefore it is possible to process multiple
173compression and decompression operations concurrently, using multiple JPEG
174objects.
175
176Both compression and decompression can be done in an incremental memory-to-
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000177memory fashion, if suitable source/destination managers are used. See the
178section on "I/O suspension" for more details.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000179
180
181BASIC LIBRARY USAGE
182===================
183
184Data formats
185------------
186
187Before diving into procedural details, it is helpful to understand the
188image data format that the JPEG library expects or returns.
189
190The standard input image format is a rectangular array of pixels, with each
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +0000191pixel having the same number of "component" or "sample" values (color
192channels). You must specify how many components there are and the colorspace
193interpretation of the components. Most applications will use RGB data
194(three components per pixel) or grayscale data (one component per pixel).
195PLEASE NOTE THAT RGB DATA IS THREE SAMPLES PER PIXEL, GRAYSCALE ONLY ONE.
196A remarkable number of people manage to miss this, only to find that their
197programs don't work with grayscale JPEG files.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000198
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +0000199There is no provision for colormapped input. JPEG files are always full-color
200or full grayscale (or sometimes another colorspace such as CMYK). You can
201feed in a colormapped image by expanding it to full-color format. However
202JPEG often doesn't work very well with source data that has been colormapped,
203because of dithering noise. This is discussed in more detail in the JPEG FAQ
204and the other references mentioned in the README file.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000205
206Pixels are stored by scanlines, with each scanline running from left to
207right. The component values for each pixel are adjacent in the row; for
208example, R,G,B,R,G,B,R,G,B,... for 24-bit RGB color. Each scanline is an
209array of data type JSAMPLE --- which is typically "unsigned char", unless
210you've changed jmorecfg.h. (You can also change the RGB pixel layout, say
211to B,G,R order, by modifying jmorecfg.h. But see the restrictions listed in
212that file before doing so.)
213
214A 2-D array of pixels is formed by making a list of pointers to the starts of
215scanlines; so the scanlines need not be physically adjacent in memory. Even
216if you process just one scanline at a time, you must make a one-element
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000217pointer array to conform to this structure. Pointers to JSAMPLE rows are of
218type JSAMPROW, and the pointer to the pointer array is of type JSAMPARRAY.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000219
220The library accepts or supplies one or more complete scanlines per call.
221It is not possible to process part of a row at a time. Scanlines are always
222processed top-to-bottom. You can process an entire image in one call if you
223have it all in memory, but usually it's simplest to process one scanline at
224a time.
225
226For best results, source data values should have the precision specified by
227BITS_IN_JSAMPLE (normally 8 bits). For instance, if you choose to compress
228data that's only 6 bits/channel, you should left-justify each value in a
229byte before passing it to the compressor. If you need to compress data
230that has more than 8 bits/channel, compile with BITS_IN_JSAMPLE = 12.
231(See "Library compile-time options", later.)
232
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +0000233
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000234The data format returned by the decompressor is the same in all details,
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +0000235except that colormapped output is supported. (Again, a JPEG file is never
236colormapped. But you can ask the decompressor to perform on-the-fly color
237quantization to deliver colormapped output.) If you request colormapped
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000238output then the returned data array contains a single JSAMPLE per pixel;
239its value is an index into a color map. The color map is represented as
240a 2-D JSAMPARRAY in which each row holds the values of one color component,
241that is, colormap[i][j] is the value of the i'th color component for pixel
242value (map index) j. Note that since the colormap indexes are stored in
243JSAMPLEs, the maximum number of colors is limited by the size of JSAMPLE
244(ie, at most 256 colors for an 8-bit JPEG library).
245
246
247Compression details
248-------------------
249
250Here we revisit the JPEG compression outline given in the overview.
251
2521. Allocate and initialize a JPEG compression object.
253
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000254A JPEG compression object is a "struct jpeg_compress_struct". (It also has
255a bunch of subsidiary structures which are allocated via malloc(), but the
256application doesn't control those directly.) This struct can be just a local
257variable in the calling routine, if a single routine is going to execute the
258whole JPEG compression sequence. Otherwise it can be static or allocated
259from malloc().
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000260
261You will also need a structure representing a JPEG error handler. The part
262of this that the library cares about is a "struct jpeg_error_mgr". If you
263are providing your own error handler, you'll typically want to embed the
264jpeg_error_mgr struct in a larger structure; this is discussed later under
265"Error handling". For now we'll assume you are just using the default error
266handler. The default error handler will print JPEG error/warning messages
267on stderr, and it will call exit() if a fatal error occurs.
268
269You must initialize the error handler structure, store a pointer to it into
270the JPEG object's "err" field, and then call jpeg_create_compress() to
271initialize the rest of the JPEG object.
272
273Typical code for this step, if you are using the default error handler, is
274
275 struct jpeg_compress_struct cinfo;
276 struct jpeg_error_mgr jerr;
277 ...
278 cinfo.err = jpeg_std_error(&jerr);
279 jpeg_create_compress(&cinfo);
280
281jpeg_create_compress allocates a small amount of memory, so it could fail
282if you are out of memory. In that case it will exit via the error handler;
283that's why the error handler must be initialized first.
284
285
2862. Specify the destination for the compressed data (eg, a file).
287
288As previously mentioned, the JPEG library delivers compressed data to a
289"data destination" module. The library includes one data destination
290module which knows how to write to a stdio stream. You can use your own
291destination module if you want to do something else, as discussed later.
292
293If you use the standard destination module, you must open the target stdio
294stream beforehand. Typical code for this step looks like:
295
296 FILE * outfile;
297 ...
298 if ((outfile = fopen(filename, "wb")) == NULL) {
299 fprintf(stderr, "can't open %s\n", filename);
300 exit(1);
301 }
302 jpeg_stdio_dest(&cinfo, outfile);
303
304where the last line invokes the standard destination module.
305
306WARNING: it is critical that the binary compressed data be delivered to the
307output file unchanged. On non-Unix systems the stdio library may perform
308newline translation or otherwise corrupt binary data. To suppress this
309behavior, you may need to use a "b" option to fopen (as shown above), or use
310setmode() or another routine to put the stdio stream in binary mode. See
311cjpeg.c and djpeg.c for code that has been found to work on many systems.
312
313You can select the data destination after setting other parameters (step 3),
314if that's more convenient. You may not change the destination between
315calling jpeg_start_compress() and jpeg_finish_compress().
316
317
3183. Set parameters for compression, including image size & colorspace.
319
320You must supply information about the source image by setting the following
321fields in the JPEG object (cinfo structure):
322
323 image_width Width of image, in pixels
324 image_height Height of image, in pixels
325 input_components Number of color channels (samples per pixel)
326 in_color_space Color space of source image
327
328The image dimensions are, hopefully, obvious. JPEG supports image dimensions
329of 1 to 64K pixels in either direction. The input color space is typically
330RGB or grayscale, and input_components is 3 or 1 accordingly. (See "Special
331color spaces", later, for more info.) The in_color_space field must be
332assigned one of the J_COLOR_SPACE enum constants, typically JCS_RGB or
333JCS_GRAYSCALE.
334
335JPEG has a large number of compression parameters that determine how the
336image is encoded. Most applications don't need or want to know about all
337these parameters. You can set all the parameters to reasonable defaults by
338calling jpeg_set_defaults(); then, if there are particular values you want
339to change, you can do so after that. The "Compression parameter selection"
340section tells about all the parameters.
341
342You must set in_color_space correctly before calling jpeg_set_defaults(),
343because the defaults depend on the source image colorspace. However the
344other three source image parameters need not be valid until you call
345jpeg_start_compress(). There's no harm in calling jpeg_set_defaults() more
346than once, if that happens to be convenient.
347
348Typical code for a 24-bit RGB source image is
349
350 cinfo.image_width = Width; /* image width and height, in pixels */
351 cinfo.image_height = Height;
352 cinfo.input_components = 3; /* # of color components per pixel */
353 cinfo.in_color_space = JCS_RGB; /* colorspace of input image */
354
355 jpeg_set_defaults(&cinfo);
356 /* Make optional parameter settings here */
357
358
3594. jpeg_start_compress(...);
360
361After you have established the data destination and set all the necessary
362source image info and other parameters, call jpeg_start_compress() to begin
363a compression cycle. This will initialize internal state, allocate working
364storage, and emit the first few bytes of the JPEG datastream header.
365
366Typical code:
367
368 jpeg_start_compress(&cinfo, TRUE);
369
370The "TRUE" parameter ensures that a complete JPEG interchange datastream
371will be written. This is appropriate in most cases. If you think you might
372want to use an abbreviated datastream, read the section on abbreviated
373datastreams, below.
374
375Once you have called jpeg_start_compress(), you may not alter any JPEG
376parameters or other fields of the JPEG object until you have completed
377the compression cycle.
378
379
3805. while (scan lines remain to be written)
381 jpeg_write_scanlines(...);
382
383Now write all the required image data by calling jpeg_write_scanlines()
384one or more times. You can pass one or more scanlines in each call, up
385to the total image height. In most applications it is convenient to pass
386just one or a few scanlines at a time. The expected format for the passed
387data is discussed under "Data formats", above.
388
389Image data should be written in top-to-bottom scanline order. The JPEG spec
390contains some weasel wording about how top and bottom are application-defined
391terms (a curious interpretation of the English language...) but if you want
392your files to be compatible with everyone else's, you WILL use top-to-bottom
393order. If the source data must be read in bottom-to-top order, you can use
394the JPEG library's virtual array mechanism to invert the data efficiently.
395Examples of this can be found in the sample application cjpeg.
396
397The library maintains a count of the number of scanlines written so far
398in the next_scanline field of the JPEG object. Usually you can just use
399this variable as the loop counter, so that the loop test looks like
400"while (cinfo.next_scanline < cinfo.image_height)".
401
402Code for this step depends heavily on the way that you store the source data.
403example.c shows the following code for the case of a full-size 2-D source
404array containing 3-byte RGB pixels:
405
406 JSAMPROW row_pointer[1]; /* pointer to a single row */
407 int row_stride; /* physical row width in buffer */
408
409 row_stride = image_width * 3; /* JSAMPLEs per row in image_buffer */
410
411 while (cinfo.next_scanline < cinfo.image_height) {
412 row_pointer[0] = & image_buffer[cinfo.next_scanline * row_stride];
413 jpeg_write_scanlines(&cinfo, row_pointer, 1);
414 }
415
416jpeg_write_scanlines() returns the number of scanlines actually written.
417This will normally be equal to the number passed in, so you can usually
418ignore the return value. It is different in just two cases:
419 * If you try to write more scanlines than the declared image height,
420 the additional scanlines are ignored.
421 * If you use a suspending data destination manager, output buffer overrun
422 will cause the compressor to return before accepting all the passed lines.
423 This feature is discussed under "I/O suspension", below. The normal
424 stdio destination manager will NOT cause this to happen.
425In any case, the return value is the same as the change in the value of
426next_scanline.
427
428
4296. jpeg_finish_compress(...);
430
431After all the image data has been written, call jpeg_finish_compress() to
432complete the compression cycle. This step is ESSENTIAL to ensure that the
433last bufferload of data is written to the data destination.
434jpeg_finish_compress() also releases working memory associated with the JPEG
435object.
436
437Typical code:
438
439 jpeg_finish_compress(&cinfo);
440
441If using the stdio destination manager, don't forget to close the output
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +0000442stdio stream (if necessary) afterwards.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000443
444If you have requested a multi-pass operating mode, such as Huffman code
445optimization, jpeg_finish_compress() will perform the additional passes using
446data buffered by the first pass. In this case jpeg_finish_compress() may take
447quite a while to complete. With the default compression parameters, this will
448not happen.
449
450It is an error to call jpeg_finish_compress() before writing the necessary
451total number of scanlines. If you wish to abort compression, call
452jpeg_abort() as discussed below.
453
454After completing a compression cycle, you may dispose of the JPEG object
455as discussed next, or you may use it to compress another image. In that case
456return to step 2, 3, or 4 as appropriate. If you do not change the
457destination manager, the new datastream will be written to the same target.
458If you do not change any JPEG parameters, the new datastream will be written
459with the same parameters as before. Note that you can change the input image
460dimensions freely between cycles, but if you change the input colorspace, you
461should call jpeg_set_defaults() to adjust for the new colorspace; and then
462you'll need to repeat all of step 3.
463
464
4657. Release the JPEG compression object.
466
467When you are done with a JPEG compression object, destroy it by calling
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +0000468jpeg_destroy_compress(). This will free all subsidiary memory (regardless of
469the previous state of the object). Or you can call jpeg_destroy(), which
470works for either compression or decompression objects --- this may be more
471convenient if you are sharing code between compression and decompression
472cases. (Actually, these routines are equivalent except for the declared type
473of the passed pointer. To avoid gripes from ANSI C compilers, jpeg_destroy()
474should be passed a j_common_ptr.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000475
476If you allocated the jpeg_compress_struct structure from malloc(), freeing
477it is your responsibility --- jpeg_destroy() won't. Ditto for the error
478handler structure.
479
480Typical code:
481
482 jpeg_destroy_compress(&cinfo);
483
484
4858. Aborting.
486
487If you decide to abort a compression cycle before finishing, you can clean up
488in either of two ways:
489
490* If you don't need the JPEG object any more, just call
491 jpeg_destroy_compress() or jpeg_destroy() to release memory. This is
492 legitimate at any point after calling jpeg_create_compress() --- in fact,
493 it's safe even if jpeg_create_compress() fails.
494
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +0000495* If you want to re-use the JPEG object, call jpeg_abort_compress(), or call
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000496 jpeg_abort() which works on both compression and decompression objects.
497 This will return the object to an idle state, releasing any working memory.
498 jpeg_abort() is allowed at any time after successful object creation.
499
500Note that cleaning up the data destination, if required, is your
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +0000501responsibility; neither of these routines will call term_destination().
502(See "Compressed data handling", below, for more about that.)
503
504jpeg_destroy() and jpeg_abort() are the only safe calls to make on a JPEG
505object that has reported an error by calling error_exit (see "Error handling"
506for more info). The internal state of such an object is likely to be out of
507whack. Either of these two routines will return the object to a known state.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000508
509
510Decompression details
511---------------------
512
513Here we revisit the JPEG decompression outline given in the overview.
514
5151. Allocate and initialize a JPEG decompression object.
516
517This is just like initialization for compression, as discussed above,
518except that the object is a "struct jpeg_decompress_struct" and you
519call jpeg_create_decompress(). Error handling is exactly the same.
520
521Typical code:
522
523 struct jpeg_decompress_struct cinfo;
524 struct jpeg_error_mgr jerr;
525 ...
526 cinfo.err = jpeg_std_error(&jerr);
527 jpeg_create_decompress(&cinfo);
528
529(Both here and in the IJG code, we usually use variable name "cinfo" for
530both compression and decompression objects.)
531
532
5332. Specify the source of the compressed data (eg, a file).
534
535As previously mentioned, the JPEG library reads compressed data from a "data
536source" module. The library includes one data source module which knows how
537to read from a stdio stream. You can use your own source module if you want
538to do something else, as discussed later.
539
540If you use the standard source module, you must open the source stdio stream
541beforehand. Typical code for this step looks like:
542
543 FILE * infile;
544 ...
545 if ((infile = fopen(filename, "rb")) == NULL) {
546 fprintf(stderr, "can't open %s\n", filename);
547 exit(1);
548 }
549 jpeg_stdio_src(&cinfo, infile);
550
551where the last line invokes the standard source module.
552
553WARNING: it is critical that the binary compressed data be read unchanged.
554On non-Unix systems the stdio library may perform newline translation or
555otherwise corrupt binary data. To suppress this behavior, you may need to use
556a "b" option to fopen (as shown above), or use setmode() or another routine to
557put the stdio stream in binary mode. See cjpeg.c and djpeg.c for code that
558has been found to work on many systems.
559
560You may not change the data source between calling jpeg_read_header() and
561jpeg_finish_decompress(). If you wish to read a series of JPEG images from
562a single source file, you should repeat the jpeg_read_header() to
563jpeg_finish_decompress() sequence without reinitializing either the JPEG
564object or the data source module; this prevents buffered input data from
565being discarded.
566
567
5683. Call jpeg_read_header() to obtain image info.
569
570Typical code for this step is just
571
572 jpeg_read_header(&cinfo, TRUE);
573
574This will read the source datastream header markers, up to the beginning
575of the compressed data proper. On return, the image dimensions and other
576info have been stored in the JPEG object. The application may wish to
577consult this information before selecting decompression parameters.
578
579More complex code is necessary if
580 * A suspending data source is used --- in that case jpeg_read_header()
581 may return before it has read all the header data. See "I/O suspension",
582 below. The normal stdio source manager will NOT cause this to happen.
583 * Abbreviated JPEG files are to be processed --- see the section on
584 abbreviated datastreams. Standard applications that deal only in
585 interchange JPEG files need not be concerned with this case either.
586
587It is permissible to stop at this point if you just wanted to find out the
588image dimensions and other header info for a JPEG file. In that case,
589call jpeg_destroy() when you are done with the JPEG object, or call
590jpeg_abort() to return it to an idle state before selecting a new data
591source and reading another header.
592
593
5944. Set parameters for decompression.
595
596jpeg_read_header() sets appropriate default decompression parameters based on
597the properties of the image (in particular, its colorspace). However, you
598may well want to alter these defaults before beginning the decompression.
599For example, the default is to produce full color output from a color file.
600If you want colormapped output you must ask for it. Other options allow the
601returned image to be scaled and allow various speed/quality tradeoffs to be
602selected. "Decompression parameter selection", below, gives details.
603
604If the defaults are appropriate, nothing need be done at this step.
605
606Note that all default values are set by each call to jpeg_read_header().
607If you reuse a decompression object, you cannot expect your parameter
608settings to be preserved across cycles, as you can for compression.
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000609You must set desired parameter values each time.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000610
611
6125. jpeg_start_decompress(...);
613
614Once the parameter values are satisfactory, call jpeg_start_decompress() to
615begin decompression. This will initialize internal state, allocate working
616memory, and prepare for returning data.
617
618Typical code is just
619
620 jpeg_start_decompress(&cinfo);
621
622If you have requested a multi-pass operating mode, such as 2-pass color
623quantization, jpeg_start_decompress() will do everything needed before data
624output can begin. In this case jpeg_start_decompress() may take quite a while
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000625to complete. With a single-scan (non progressive) JPEG file and default
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000626decompression parameters, this will not happen; jpeg_start_decompress() will
627return quickly.
628
629After this call, the final output image dimensions, including any requested
630scaling, are available in the JPEG object; so is the selected colormap, if
631colormapped output has been requested. Useful fields include
632
633 output_width image width and height, as scaled
634 output_height
635 out_color_components # of color components in out_color_space
636 output_components # of color components returned per pixel
637 colormap the selected colormap, if any
638 actual_number_of_colors number of entries in colormap
639
640output_components is 1 (a colormap index) when quantizing colors; otherwise it
641equals out_color_components. It is the number of JSAMPLE values that will be
642emitted per pixel in the output arrays.
643
644Typically you will need to allocate data buffers to hold the incoming image.
645You will need output_width * output_components JSAMPLEs per scanline in your
646output buffer, and a total of output_height scanlines will be returned.
647
648Note: if you are using the JPEG library's internal memory manager to allocate
649data buffers (as djpeg does), then the manager's protocol requires that you
650request large buffers *before* calling jpeg_start_decompress(). This is a
651little tricky since the output_XXX fields are not normally valid then. You
652can make them valid by calling jpeg_calc_output_dimensions() after setting the
653relevant parameters (scaling, output color space, and quantization flag).
654
655
6566. while (scan lines remain to be read)
657 jpeg_read_scanlines(...);
658
659Now you can read the decompressed image data by calling jpeg_read_scanlines()
660one or more times. At each call, you pass in the maximum number of scanlines
661to be read (ie, the height of your working buffer); jpeg_read_scanlines()
662will return up to that many lines. The return value is the number of lines
663actually read. The format of the returned data is discussed under "Data
Thomas G. Lanea8b67c41995-03-15 00:00:00 +0000664formats", above. Don't forget that grayscale and color JPEGs will return
665different data formats!
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000666
667Image data is returned in top-to-bottom scanline order. If you must write
668out the image in bottom-to-top order, you can use the JPEG library's virtual
669array mechanism to invert the data efficiently. Examples of this can be
670found in the sample application djpeg.
671
672The library maintains a count of the number of scanlines returned so far
673in the output_scanline field of the JPEG object. Usually you can just use
674this variable as the loop counter, so that the loop test looks like
675"while (cinfo.output_scanline < cinfo.output_height)". (Note that the test
676should NOT be against image_height, unless you never use scaling. The
677image_height field is the height of the original unscaled image.)
Thomas G. Lane9ba2f5e1994-12-07 00:00:00 +0000678The return value always equals the change in the value of output_scanline.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000679
680If you don't use a suspending data source, it is safe to assume that
681jpeg_read_scanlines() reads at least one scanline per call, until the
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +0000682bottom of the image has been reached.
683
684If you use a buffer larger than one scanline, it is NOT safe to assume that
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +0000685jpeg_read_scanlines() fills it. (The current implementation returns only a
686few scanlines per call, no matter how large a buffer you pass.) So you must
687always provide a loop that calls jpeg_read_scanlines() repeatedly until the
688whole image has been read.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000689
690
6917. jpeg_finish_decompress(...);
692
693After all the image data has been read, call jpeg_finish_decompress() to
694complete the decompression cycle. This causes working memory associated
695with the JPEG object to be released.
696
697Typical code:
698
699 jpeg_finish_decompress(&cinfo);
700
701If using the stdio source manager, don't forget to close the source stdio
702stream if necessary.
703
704It is an error to call jpeg_finish_decompress() before reading the correct
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +0000705total number of scanlines. If you wish to abort decompression, call
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000706jpeg_abort() as discussed below.
707
708After completing a decompression cycle, you may dispose of the JPEG object as
709discussed next, or you may use it to decompress another image. In that case
710return to step 2 or 3 as appropriate. If you do not change the source
711manager, the next image will be read from the same source.
712
713
7148. Release the JPEG decompression object.
715
716When you are done with a JPEG decompression object, destroy it by calling
717jpeg_destroy_decompress() or jpeg_destroy(). The previous discussion of
718destroying compression objects applies here too.
719
720Typical code:
721
722 jpeg_destroy_decompress(&cinfo);
723
724
7259. Aborting.
726
727You can abort a decompression cycle by calling jpeg_destroy_decompress() or
728jpeg_destroy() if you don't need the JPEG object any more, or
729jpeg_abort_decompress() or jpeg_abort() if you want to reuse the object.
730The previous discussion of aborting compression cycles applies here too.
731
732
733Mechanics of usage: include files, linking, etc
734-----------------------------------------------
735
736Applications using the JPEG library should include the header file jpeglib.h
737to obtain declarations of data types and routines. Before including
738jpeglib.h, include system headers that define at least the typedefs FILE and
739size_t. On ANSI-conforming systems, including <stdio.h> is sufficient; on
740older Unix systems, you may need <sys/types.h> to define size_t.
741
742If the application needs to refer to individual JPEG library error codes, also
743include jerror.h to define those symbols.
744
745jpeglib.h indirectly includes the files jconfig.h and jmorecfg.h. If you are
746installing the JPEG header files in a system directory, you will want to
747install all four files: jpeglib.h, jerror.h, jconfig.h, jmorecfg.h.
748
749The most convenient way to include the JPEG code into your executable program
750is to prepare a library file ("libjpeg.a", or a corresponding name on non-Unix
751machines) and reference it at your link step. If you use only half of the
752library (only compression or only decompression), only that much code will be
753included from the library, unless your linker is hopelessly brain-damaged.
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +0000754The supplied makefiles build libjpeg.a automatically (see install.txt).
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000755
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +0000756While you can build the JPEG library as a shared library if the whim strikes
757you, we don't really recommend it. The trouble with shared libraries is that
758at some point you'll probably try to substitute a new version of the library
759without recompiling the calling applications. That generally doesn't work
760because the parameter struct declarations usually change with each new
761version. In other words, the library's API is *not* guaranteed binary
762compatible across versions; we only try to ensure source-code compatibility.
763(In hindsight, it might have been smarter to hide the parameter structs from
764applications and introduce a ton of access functions instead. Too late now,
765however.)
766
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000767On some systems your application may need to set up a signal handler to ensure
768that temporary files are deleted if the program is interrupted. This is most
769critical if you are on MS-DOS and use the jmemdos.c memory manager back end;
770it will try to grab extended memory for temp files, and that space will NOT be
771freed automatically. See cjpeg.c or djpeg.c for an example signal handler.
772
773It may be worth pointing out that the core JPEG library does not actually
774require the stdio library: only the default source/destination managers and
775error handler need it. You can use the library in a stdio-less environment
776if you replace those modules and use jmemnobs.c (or another memory manager of
777your own devising). More info about the minimum system library requirements
778may be found in jinclude.h.
779
780
781ADVANCED FEATURES
782=================
783
784Compression parameter selection
785-------------------------------
786
787This section describes all the optional parameters you can set for JPEG
788compression, as well as the "helper" routines provided to assist in this
789task. Proper setting of some parameters requires detailed understanding
790of the JPEG standard; if you don't know what a parameter is for, it's best
791not to mess with it! See REFERENCES in the README file for pointers to
792more info about JPEG.
793
794It's a good idea to call jpeg_set_defaults() first, even if you plan to set
795all the parameters; that way your code is more likely to work with future JPEG
796libraries that have additional parameters. For the same reason, we recommend
797you use a helper routine where one is provided, in preference to twiddling
798cinfo fields directly.
799
800The helper routines are:
801
802jpeg_set_defaults (j_compress_ptr cinfo)
803 This routine sets all JPEG parameters to reasonable defaults, using
804 only the input image's color space (field in_color_space, which must
805 already be set in cinfo). Many applications will only need to use
806 this routine and perhaps jpeg_set_quality().
807
808jpeg_set_colorspace (j_compress_ptr cinfo, J_COLOR_SPACE colorspace)
809 Sets the JPEG file's colorspace (field jpeg_color_space) as specified,
810 and sets other color-space-dependent parameters appropriately. See
811 "Special color spaces", below, before using this. A large number of
812 parameters, including all per-component parameters, are set by this
813 routine; if you want to twiddle individual parameters you should call
814 jpeg_set_colorspace() before rather than after.
815
816jpeg_default_colorspace (j_compress_ptr cinfo)
817 Selects an appropriate JPEG colorspace based on cinfo->in_color_space,
818 and calls jpeg_set_colorspace(). This is actually a subroutine of
819 jpeg_set_defaults(). It's broken out in case you want to change
820 just the colorspace-dependent JPEG parameters.
821
822jpeg_set_quality (j_compress_ptr cinfo, int quality, boolean force_baseline)
823 Constructs JPEG quantization tables appropriate for the indicated
824 quality setting. The quality value is expressed on the 0..100 scale
825 recommended by IJG (cjpeg's "-quality" switch uses this routine).
826 Note that the exact mapping from quality values to tables may change
827 in future IJG releases as more is learned about DCT quantization.
828 If the force_baseline parameter is TRUE, then the quantization table
829 entries are constrained to the range 1..255 for full JPEG baseline
830 compatibility. In the current implementation, this only makes a
831 difference for quality settings below 25, and it effectively prevents
832 very small/low quality files from being generated. The IJG decoder
833 is capable of reading the non-baseline files generated at low quality
834 settings when force_baseline is FALSE, but other decoders may not be.
835
836jpeg_set_linear_quality (j_compress_ptr cinfo, int scale_factor,
837 boolean force_baseline)
838 Same as jpeg_set_quality() except that the generated tables are the
839 sample tables given in the JPEC spec section K.1, multiplied by the
840 specified scale factor (which is expressed as a percentage; thus
841 scale_factor = 100 reproduces the spec's tables). Note that larger
842 scale factors give lower quality. This entry point is useful for
843 conforming to the Adobe PostScript DCT conventions, but we do not
844 recommend linear scaling as a user-visible quality scale otherwise.
845 force_baseline again constrains the computed table entries to 1..255.
846
847int jpeg_quality_scaling (int quality)
848 Converts a value on the IJG-recommended quality scale to a linear
849 scaling percentage. Note that this routine may change or go away
850 in future releases --- IJG may choose to adopt a scaling method that
851 can't be expressed as a simple scalar multiplier, in which case the
852 premise of this routine collapses. Caveat user.
853
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +0000854jpeg_default_qtables (j_compress_ptr cinfo, boolean force_baseline)
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856 Set default quantization tables with linear q_scale_factor[] values
857 (see below).
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +0000858
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000859jpeg_add_quant_table (j_compress_ptr cinfo, int which_tbl,
860 const unsigned int *basic_table,
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000861 int scale_factor, boolean force_baseline)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000862 Allows an arbitrary quantization table to be created. which_tbl
863 indicates which table slot to fill. basic_table points to an array
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +0000864 of 64 unsigned ints given in normal array order. These values are
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000865 multiplied by scale_factor/100 and then clamped to the range 1..65535
866 (or to 1..255 if force_baseline is TRUE).
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +0000867 CAUTION: prior to library version 6a, jpeg_add_quant_table expected
868 the basic table to be given in JPEG zigzag order. If you need to
869 write code that works with either older or newer versions of this
870 routine, you must check the library version number. Something like
871 "#if JPEG_LIB_VERSION >= 61" is the right test.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000872
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000873jpeg_simple_progression (j_compress_ptr cinfo)
874 Generates a default scan script for writing a progressive-JPEG file.
875 This is the recommended method of creating a progressive file,
876 unless you want to make a custom scan sequence. You must ensure that
877 the JPEG color space is set correctly before calling this routine.
878
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000879
880Compression parameters (cinfo fields) include:
881
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000882J_DCT_METHOD dct_method
883 Selects the algorithm used for the DCT step. Choices are:
884 JDCT_ISLOW: slow but accurate integer algorithm
885 JDCT_IFAST: faster, less accurate integer method
886 JDCT_FLOAT: floating-point method
887 JDCT_DEFAULT: default method (normally JDCT_ISLOW)
888 JDCT_FASTEST: fastest method (normally JDCT_IFAST)
Thomas G. Lanea8b67c41995-03-15 00:00:00 +0000889 The FLOAT method is very slightly more accurate than the ISLOW method,
890 but may give different results on different machines due to varying
891 roundoff behavior. The integer methods should give the same results
892 on all machines. On machines with sufficiently fast FP hardware, the
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000893 floating-point method may also be the fastest. The IFAST method is
894 considerably less accurate than the other two; its use is not
895 recommended if high quality is a concern. JDCT_DEFAULT and
896 JDCT_FASTEST are macros configurable by each installation.
897
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000898J_COLOR_SPACE jpeg_color_space
899int num_components
900 The JPEG color space and corresponding number of components; see
901 "Special color spaces", below, for more info. We recommend using
902 jpeg_set_color_space() if you want to change these.
903
904boolean optimize_coding
905 TRUE causes the compressor to compute optimal Huffman coding tables
906 for the image. This requires an extra pass over the data and
907 therefore costs a good deal of space and time. The default is
908 FALSE, which tells the compressor to use the supplied or default
909 Huffman tables. In most cases optimal tables save only a few percent
910 of file size compared to the default tables. Note that when this is
911 TRUE, you need not supply Huffman tables at all, and any you do
912 supply will be overwritten.
913
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000914unsigned int restart_interval
915int restart_in_rows
916 To emit restart markers in the JPEG file, set one of these nonzero.
917 Set restart_interval to specify the exact interval in MCU blocks.
918 Set restart_in_rows to specify the interval in MCU rows. (If
919 restart_in_rows is not 0, then restart_interval is set after the
920 image width in MCUs is computed.) Defaults are zero (no restarts).
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +0000921 One restart marker per MCU row is often a good choice.
922 NOTE: the overhead of restart markers is higher in grayscale JPEG
923 files than in color files, and MUCH higher in progressive JPEGs.
924 If you use restarts, you may want to use larger intervals in those
925 cases.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000926
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +0000927const jpeg_scan_info * scan_info
928int num_scans
929 By default, scan_info is NULL; this causes the compressor to write a
930 single-scan sequential JPEG file. If not NULL, scan_info points to
931 an array of scan definition records of length num_scans. The
932 compressor will then write a JPEG file having one scan for each scan
933 definition record. This is used to generate noninterleaved or
934 progressive JPEG files. The library checks that the scan array
935 defines a valid JPEG scan sequence. (jpeg_simple_progression creates
936 a suitable scan definition array for progressive JPEG.) This is
937 discussed further under "Progressive JPEG support".
938
939int smoothing_factor
940 If non-zero, the input image is smoothed; the value should be 1 for
941 minimal smoothing to 100 for maximum smoothing. Consult jcsample.c
942 for details of the smoothing algorithm. The default is zero.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000943
944boolean write_JFIF_header
945 If TRUE, a JFIF APP0 marker is emitted. jpeg_set_defaults() and
946 jpeg_set_colorspace() set this TRUE if a JFIF-legal JPEG color space
947 (ie, YCbCr or grayscale) is selected, otherwise FALSE.
948
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +0000949UINT8 JFIF_major_version
950UINT8 JFIF_minor_version
951 The version number to be written into the JFIF marker.
952 jpeg_set_defaults() initializes the version to 1.01 (major=minor=1).
953 You should set it to 1.02 (major=1, minor=2) if you plan to write
954 any JFIF 1.02 extension markers.
955
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +0000956UINT8 density_unit
957UINT16 X_density
958UINT16 Y_density
959 The resolution information to be written into the JFIF marker;
960 not used otherwise. density_unit may be 0 for unknown,
961 1 for dots/inch, or 2 for dots/cm. The default values are 0,1,1
962 indicating square pixels of unknown size.
963
964boolean write_Adobe_marker
965 If TRUE, an Adobe APP14 marker is emitted. jpeg_set_defaults() and
966 jpeg_set_colorspace() set this TRUE if JPEG color space RGB, CMYK,
967 or YCCK is selected, otherwise FALSE. It is generally a bad idea
968 to set both write_JFIF_header and write_Adobe_marker. In fact,
969 you probably shouldn't change the default settings at all --- the
970 default behavior ensures that the JPEG file's color space can be
971 recognized by the decoder.
972
973JQUANT_TBL * quant_tbl_ptrs[NUM_QUANT_TBLS]
974 Pointers to coefficient quantization tables, one per table slot,
975 or NULL if no table is defined for a slot. Usually these should
976 be set via one of the above helper routines; jpeg_add_quant_table()
977 is general enough to define any quantization table. The other
978 routines will set up table slot 0 for luminance quality and table
979 slot 1 for chrominance.
980
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +0000981int q_scale_factor[NUM_QUANT_TBLS]
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983 Linear quantization scaling factors (0-100, default 100)
984 for use with jpeg_default_qtables().
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +0000985 See rdswitch.c and cjpeg.c for an example of usage.
DRC39ea5622010-10-12 01:55:31 +0000986 Note that the q_scale_factor[] values use "linear" scales, so JPEG
987 quality levels chosen by the user must be converted to these scales
DRCccd1bfd2012-01-31 09:53:46 +0000988 using jpeg_quality_scaling(). Here is an example that corresponds to
DRC39ea5622010-10-12 01:55:31 +0000989 cjpeg -quality 90,70:
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +0000990
991 jpeg_set_defaults(cinfo);
992
993 /* Set luminance quality 90. */
994 cinfo->q_scale_factor[0] = jpeg_quality_scaling(90);
995 /* Set chrominance quality 70. */
996 cinfo->q_scale_factor[1] = jpeg_quality_scaling(70);
997
998 jpeg_default_qtables(cinfo, force_baseline);
999
DRC39ea5622010-10-12 01:55:31 +00001000 CAUTION: Setting separate quality levels for chrominance and luminance
1001 is mainly only useful if chrominance subsampling is disabled. 2x2
1002 chrominance subsampling (AKA "4:2:0") is the default, but you can
1003 explicitly disable subsampling as follows:
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +00001004
1005 cinfo->comp_info[0].v_samp_factor = 1;
1006 cinfo->comp_info[0].h_samp_factor = 1;
1007
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001008JHUFF_TBL * dc_huff_tbl_ptrs[NUM_HUFF_TBLS]
1009JHUFF_TBL * ac_huff_tbl_ptrs[NUM_HUFF_TBLS]
1010 Pointers to Huffman coding tables, one per table slot, or NULL if
1011 no table is defined for a slot. Slots 0 and 1 are filled with the
1012 JPEG sample tables by jpeg_set_defaults(). If you need to allocate
1013 more table structures, jpeg_alloc_huff_table() may be used.
1014 Note that optimal Huffman tables can be computed for an image
1015 by setting optimize_coding, as discussed above; there's seldom
1016 any need to mess with providing your own Huffman tables.
1017
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1020The actual dimensions of the JPEG image that will be written to the file are
1021given by the following fields. These are computed from the input image
1022dimensions and the compression parameters by jpeg_start_compress(). You can
1023also call jpeg_calc_jpeg_dimensions() to obtain the values that will result
1024from the current parameter settings.
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +00001025
1026JDIMENSION jpeg_width Actual dimensions of output image.
1027JDIMENSION jpeg_height
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001028
1029
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001030Per-component parameters are stored in the struct cinfo.comp_info[i] for
1031component number i. Note that components here refer to components of the
1032JPEG color space, *not* the source image color space. A suitably large
1033comp_info[] array is allocated by jpeg_set_defaults(); if you choose not
1034to use that routine, it's up to you to allocate the array.
1035
1036int component_id
1037 The one-byte identifier code to be recorded in the JPEG file for
1038 this component. For the standard color spaces, we recommend you
1039 leave the default values alone.
1040
1041int h_samp_factor
1042int v_samp_factor
1043 Horizontal and vertical sampling factors for the component; must
1044 be 1..4 according to the JPEG standard. Note that larger sampling
1045 factors indicate a higher-resolution component; many people find
1046 this behavior quite unintuitive. The default values are 2,2 for
1047 luminance components and 1,1 for chrominance components, except
1048 for grayscale where 1,1 is used.
1049
1050int quant_tbl_no
1051 Quantization table number for component. The default value is
1052 0 for luminance components and 1 for chrominance components.
1053
1054int dc_tbl_no
1055int ac_tbl_no
1056 DC and AC entropy coding table numbers. The default values are
1057 0 for luminance components and 1 for chrominance components.
1058
1059int component_index
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001060 Must equal the component's index in comp_info[]. (Beginning in
1061 release v6, the compressor library will fill this in automatically;
1062 you don't have to.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001063
1064
1065Decompression parameter selection
1066---------------------------------
1067
1068Decompression parameter selection is somewhat simpler than compression
1069parameter selection, since all of the JPEG internal parameters are
1070recorded in the source file and need not be supplied by the application.
1071(Unless you are working with abbreviated files, in which case see
1072"Abbreviated datastreams", below.) Decompression parameters control
1073the postprocessing done on the image to deliver it in a format suitable
1074for the application's use. Many of the parameters control speed/quality
1075tradeoffs, in which faster decompression may be obtained at the price of
1076a poorer-quality image. The defaults select the highest quality (slowest)
1077processing.
1078
1079The following fields in the JPEG object are set by jpeg_read_header() and
1080may be useful to the application in choosing decompression parameters:
1081
1082JDIMENSION image_width Width and height of image
1083JDIMENSION image_height
1084int num_components Number of color components
1085J_COLOR_SPACE jpeg_color_space Colorspace of image
1086boolean saw_JFIF_marker TRUE if a JFIF APP0 marker was seen
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00001087 UINT8 JFIF_major_version Version information from JFIF marker
1088 UINT8 JFIF_minor_version
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001089 UINT8 density_unit Resolution data from JFIF marker
1090 UINT16 X_density
1091 UINT16 Y_density
1092boolean saw_Adobe_marker TRUE if an Adobe APP14 marker was seen
1093 UINT8 Adobe_transform Color transform code from Adobe marker
1094
1095The JPEG color space, unfortunately, is something of a guess since the JPEG
1096standard proper does not provide a way to record it. In practice most files
1097adhere to the JFIF or Adobe conventions, and the decoder will recognize these
1098correctly. See "Special color spaces", below, for more info.
1099
1100
1101The decompression parameters that determine the basic properties of the
1102returned image are:
1103
1104J_COLOR_SPACE out_color_space
1105 Output color space. jpeg_read_header() sets an appropriate default
1106 based on jpeg_color_space; typically it will be RGB or grayscale.
1107 The application can change this field to request output in a different
1108 colorspace. For example, set it to JCS_GRAYSCALE to get grayscale
1109 output from a color file. (This is useful for previewing: grayscale
1110 output is faster than full color since the color components need not
1111 be processed.) Note that not all possible color space transforms are
1112 currently implemented; you may need to extend jdcolor.c if you want an
1113 unusual conversion.
1114
1115unsigned int scale_num, scale_denom
1116 Scale the image by the fraction scale_num/scale_denom. Default is
1117 1/1, or no scaling. Currently, the only supported scaling ratios
1118 are 1/1, 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8. (The library design allows for arbitrary
1119 scaling ratios but this is not likely to be implemented any time soon.)
1120 Smaller scaling ratios permit significantly faster decoding since
1121 fewer pixels need be processed and a simpler IDCT method can be used.
1122
1123boolean quantize_colors
1124 If set TRUE, colormapped output will be delivered. Default is FALSE,
1125 meaning that full-color output will be delivered.
1126
1127The next three parameters are relevant only if quantize_colors is TRUE.
1128
1129int desired_number_of_colors
1130 Maximum number of colors to use in generating a library-supplied color
1131 map (the actual number of colors is returned in a different field).
1132 Default 256. Ignored when the application supplies its own color map.
1133
1134boolean two_pass_quantize
1135 If TRUE, an extra pass over the image is made to select a custom color
1136 map for the image. This usually looks a lot better than the one-size-
1137 fits-all colormap that is used otherwise. Default is TRUE. Ignored
1138 when the application supplies its own color map.
1139
1140J_DITHER_MODE dither_mode
1141 Selects color dithering method. Supported values are:
1142 JDITHER_NONE no dithering: fast, very low quality
1143 JDITHER_ORDERED ordered dither: moderate speed and quality
1144 JDITHER_FS Floyd-Steinberg dither: slow, high quality
1145 Default is JDITHER_FS. (At present, ordered dither is implemented
1146 only in the single-pass, standard-colormap case. If you ask for
1147 ordered dither when two_pass_quantize is TRUE or when you supply
1148 an external color map, you'll get F-S dithering.)
1149
1150When quantize_colors is TRUE, the target color map is described by the next
1151two fields. colormap is set to NULL by jpeg_read_header(). The application
1152can supply a color map by setting colormap non-NULL and setting
1153actual_number_of_colors to the map size. Otherwise, jpeg_start_decompress()
1154selects a suitable color map and sets these two fields itself.
1155[Implementation restriction: at present, an externally supplied colormap is
1156only accepted for 3-component output color spaces.]
1157
1158JSAMPARRAY colormap
1159 The color map, represented as a 2-D pixel array of out_color_components
1160 rows and actual_number_of_colors columns. Ignored if not quantizing.
Thomas G. Lanea8b67c41995-03-15 00:00:00 +00001161 CAUTION: if the JPEG library creates its own colormap, the storage
1162 pointed to by this field is released by jpeg_finish_decompress().
1163 Copy the colormap somewhere else first, if you want to save it.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001164
1165int actual_number_of_colors
1166 The number of colors in the color map.
1167
1168Additional decompression parameters that the application may set include:
1169
1170J_DCT_METHOD dct_method
1171 Selects the algorithm used for the DCT step. Choices are the same
1172 as described above for compression.
1173
1174boolean do_fancy_upsampling
1175 If TRUE, do careful upsampling of chroma components. If FALSE,
1176 a faster but sloppier method is used. Default is TRUE. The visual
1177 impact of the sloppier method is often very small.
1178
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001179boolean do_block_smoothing
1180 If TRUE, interblock smoothing is applied in early stages of decoding
1181 progressive JPEG files; if FALSE, not. Default is TRUE. Early
1182 progression stages look "fuzzy" with smoothing, "blocky" without.
1183 In any case, block smoothing ceases to be applied after the first few
1184 AC coefficients are known to full accuracy, so it is relevant only
1185 when using buffered-image mode for progressive images.
1186
1187boolean enable_1pass_quant
1188boolean enable_external_quant
1189boolean enable_2pass_quant
1190 These are significant only in buffered-image mode, which is
1191 described in its own section below.
1192
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001193
1194The output image dimensions are given by the following fields. These are
1195computed from the source image dimensions and the decompression parameters
1196by jpeg_start_decompress(). You can also call jpeg_calc_output_dimensions()
1197to obtain the values that will result from the current parameter settings.
1198This can be useful if you are trying to pick a scaling ratio that will get
1199close to a desired target size. It's also important if you are using the
1200JPEG library's memory manager to allocate output buffer space, because you
1201are supposed to request such buffers *before* jpeg_start_decompress().
1202
1203JDIMENSION output_width Actual dimensions of output image.
1204JDIMENSION output_height
1205int out_color_components Number of color components in out_color_space.
1206int output_components Number of color components returned.
1207int rec_outbuf_height Recommended height of scanline buffer.
1208
1209When quantizing colors, output_components is 1, indicating a single color map
1210index per pixel. Otherwise it equals out_color_components. The output arrays
1211are required to be output_width * output_components JSAMPLEs wide.
1212
1213rec_outbuf_height is the recommended minimum height (in scanlines) of the
1214buffer passed to jpeg_read_scanlines(). If the buffer is smaller, the
1215library will still work, but time will be wasted due to unnecessary data
1216copying. In high-quality modes, rec_outbuf_height is always 1, but some
1217faster, lower-quality modes set it to larger values (typically 2 to 4).
1218If you are going to ask for a high-speed processing mode, you may as well
1219go to the trouble of honoring rec_outbuf_height so as to avoid data copying.
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00001220(An output buffer larger than rec_outbuf_height lines is OK, but won't
1221provide any material speed improvement over that height.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001222
1223
1224Special color spaces
1225--------------------
1226
1227The JPEG standard itself is "color blind" and doesn't specify any particular
1228color space. It is customary to convert color data to a luminance/chrominance
1229color space before compressing, since this permits greater compression. The
1230existing de-facto JPEG file format standards specify YCbCr or grayscale data
1231(JFIF), or grayscale, RGB, YCbCr, CMYK, or YCCK (Adobe). For special
1232applications such as multispectral images, other color spaces can be used,
1233but it must be understood that such files will be unportable.
1234
1235The JPEG library can handle the most common colorspace conversions (namely
1236RGB <=> YCbCr and CMYK <=> YCCK). It can also deal with data of an unknown
1237color space, passing it through without conversion. If you deal extensively
1238with an unusual color space, you can easily extend the library to understand
1239additional color spaces and perform appropriate conversions.
1240
1241For compression, the source data's color space is specified by field
1242in_color_space. This is transformed to the JPEG file's color space given
1243by jpeg_color_space. jpeg_set_defaults() chooses a reasonable JPEG color
1244space depending on in_color_space, but you can override this by calling
1245jpeg_set_colorspace(). Of course you must select a supported transformation.
1246jccolor.c currently supports the following transformations:
1247 RGB => YCbCr
1248 RGB => GRAYSCALE
1249 YCbCr => GRAYSCALE
1250 CMYK => YCCK
1251plus the null transforms: GRAYSCALE => GRAYSCALE, RGB => RGB,
1252YCbCr => YCbCr, CMYK => CMYK, YCCK => YCCK, and UNKNOWN => UNKNOWN.
1253
1254The de-facto file format standards (JFIF and Adobe) specify APPn markers that
1255indicate the color space of the JPEG file. It is important to ensure that
1256these are written correctly, or omitted if the JPEG file's color space is not
1257one of the ones supported by the de-facto standards. jpeg_set_colorspace()
1258will set the compression parameters to include or omit the APPn markers
1259properly, so long as it is told the truth about the JPEG color space.
1260For example, if you are writing some random 3-component color space without
1261conversion, don't try to fake out the library by setting in_color_space and
1262jpeg_color_space to JCS_YCbCr; use JCS_UNKNOWN. You may want to write an
1263APPn marker of your own devising to identify the colorspace --- see "Special
1264markers", below.
1265
1266When told that the color space is UNKNOWN, the library will default to using
1267luminance-quality compression parameters for all color components. You may
1268well want to change these parameters. See the source code for
1269jpeg_set_colorspace(), in jcparam.c, for details.
1270
1271For decompression, the JPEG file's color space is given in jpeg_color_space,
1272and this is transformed to the output color space out_color_space.
1273jpeg_read_header's setting of jpeg_color_space can be relied on if the file
1274conforms to JFIF or Adobe conventions, but otherwise it is no better than a
1275guess. If you know the JPEG file's color space for certain, you can override
1276jpeg_read_header's guess by setting jpeg_color_space. jpeg_read_header also
1277selects a default output color space based on (its guess of) jpeg_color_space;
1278set out_color_space to override this. Again, you must select a supported
1279transformation. jdcolor.c currently supports
1280 YCbCr => GRAYSCALE
1281 YCbCr => RGB
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00001282 GRAYSCALE => RGB
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001283 YCCK => CMYK
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00001284as well as the null transforms. (Since GRAYSCALE=>RGB is provided, an
1285application can force grayscale JPEGs to look like color JPEGs if it only
1286wants to handle one case.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001287
1288The two-pass color quantizer, jquant2.c, is specialized to handle RGB data
1289(it weights distances appropriately for RGB colors). You'll need to modify
1290the code if you want to use it for non-RGB output color spaces. Note that
1291jquant2.c is used to map to an application-supplied colormap as well as for
1292the normal two-pass colormap selection process.
1293
1294CAUTION: it appears that Adobe Photoshop writes inverted data in CMYK JPEG
1295files: 0 represents 100% ink coverage, rather than 0% ink as you'd expect.
1296This is arguably a bug in Photoshop, but if you need to work with Photoshop
1297CMYK files, you will have to deal with it in your application. We cannot
1298"fix" this in the library by inverting the data during the CMYK<=>YCCK
1299transform, because that would break other applications, notably Ghostscript.
1300Photoshop versions prior to 3.0 write EPS files containing JPEG-encoded CMYK
1301data in the same inverted-YCCK representation used in bare JPEG files, but
1302the surrounding PostScript code performs an inversion using the PS image
1303operator. I am told that Photoshop 3.0 will write uninverted YCCK in
1304EPS/JPEG files, and will omit the PS-level inversion. (But the data
1305polarity used in bare JPEG files will not change in 3.0.) In either case,
1306the JPEG library must not invert the data itself, or else Ghostscript would
1307read these EPS files incorrectly.
1308
1309
1310Error handling
1311--------------
1312
1313When the default error handler is used, any error detected inside the JPEG
1314routines will cause a message to be printed on stderr, followed by exit().
1315You can supply your own error handling routines to override this behavior
1316and to control the treatment of nonfatal warnings and trace/debug messages.
1317The file example.c illustrates the most common case, which is to have the
1318application regain control after an error rather than exiting.
1319
1320The JPEG library never writes any message directly; it always goes through
1321the error handling routines. Three classes of messages are recognized:
1322 * Fatal errors: the library cannot continue.
1323 * Warnings: the library can continue, but the data is corrupt, and a
1324 damaged output image is likely to result.
1325 * Trace/informational messages. These come with a trace level indicating
1326 the importance of the message; you can control the verbosity of the
1327 program by adjusting the maximum trace level that will be displayed.
1328
1329You may, if you wish, simply replace the entire JPEG error handling module
1330(jerror.c) with your own code. However, you can avoid code duplication by
1331only replacing some of the routines depending on the behavior you need.
1332This is accomplished by calling jpeg_std_error() as usual, but then overriding
1333some of the method pointers in the jpeg_error_mgr struct, as illustrated by
1334example.c.
1335
1336All of the error handling routines will receive a pointer to the JPEG object
1337(a j_common_ptr which points to either a jpeg_compress_struct or a
1338jpeg_decompress_struct; if you need to tell which, test the is_decompressor
1339field). This struct includes a pointer to the error manager struct in its
1340"err" field. Frequently, custom error handler routines will need to access
1341additional data which is not known to the JPEG library or the standard error
1342handler. The most convenient way to do this is to embed either the JPEG
1343object or the jpeg_error_mgr struct in a larger structure that contains
1344additional fields; then casting the passed pointer provides access to the
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00001345additional fields. Again, see example.c for one way to do it. (Beginning
1346with IJG version 6b, there is also a void pointer "client_data" in each
1347JPEG object, which the application can also use to find related data.
1348The library does not touch client_data at all.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001349
1350The individual methods that you might wish to override are:
1351
1352error_exit (j_common_ptr cinfo)
1353 Receives control for a fatal error. Information sufficient to
1354 generate the error message has been stored in cinfo->err; call
1355 output_message to display it. Control must NOT return to the caller;
1356 generally this routine will exit() or longjmp() somewhere.
1357 Typically you would override this routine to get rid of the exit()
1358 default behavior. Note that if you continue processing, you should
1359 clean up the JPEG object with jpeg_abort() or jpeg_destroy().
1360
1361output_message (j_common_ptr cinfo)
1362 Actual output of any JPEG message. Override this to send messages
1363 somewhere other than stderr. Note that this method does not know
1364 how to generate a message, only where to send it.
1365
1366format_message (j_common_ptr cinfo, char * buffer)
1367 Constructs a readable error message string based on the error info
1368 stored in cinfo->err. This method is called by output_message. Few
1369 applications should need to override this method. One possible
1370 reason for doing so is to implement dynamic switching of error message
1371 language.
1372
1373emit_message (j_common_ptr cinfo, int msg_level)
1374 Decide whether or not to emit a warning or trace message; if so,
1375 calls output_message. The main reason for overriding this method
1376 would be to abort on warnings. msg_level is -1 for warnings,
1377 0 and up for trace messages.
1378
1379Only error_exit() and emit_message() are called from the rest of the JPEG
1380library; the other two are internal to the error handler.
1381
1382The actual message texts are stored in an array of strings which is pointed to
1383by the field err->jpeg_message_table. The messages are numbered from 0 to
1384err->last_jpeg_message, and it is these code numbers that are used in the
1385JPEG library code. You could replace the message texts (for instance, with
1386messages in French or German) by changing the message table pointer. See
1387jerror.h for the default texts. CAUTION: this table will almost certainly
1388change or grow from one library version to the next.
1389
1390It may be useful for an application to add its own message texts that are
1391handled by the same mechanism. The error handler supports a second "add-on"
1392message table for this purpose. To define an addon table, set the pointer
1393err->addon_message_table and the message numbers err->first_addon_message and
1394err->last_addon_message. If you number the addon messages beginning at 1000
1395or so, you won't have to worry about conflicts with the library's built-in
1396messages. See the sample applications cjpeg/djpeg for an example of using
1397addon messages (the addon messages are defined in cderror.h).
1398
1399Actual invocation of the error handler is done via macros defined in jerror.h:
1400 ERREXITn(...) for fatal errors
1401 WARNMSn(...) for corrupt-data warnings
1402 TRACEMSn(...) for trace and informational messages.
1403These macros store the message code and any additional parameters into the
1404error handler struct, then invoke the error_exit() or emit_message() method.
1405The variants of each macro are for varying numbers of additional parameters.
1406The additional parameters are inserted into the generated message using
1407standard printf() format codes.
1408
1409See jerror.h and jerror.c for further details.
1410
1411
1412Compressed data handling (source and destination managers)
1413----------------------------------------------------------
1414
1415The JPEG compression library sends its compressed data to a "destination
1416manager" module. The default destination manager just writes the data to a
Guido Vollbeding989630f2010-01-10 00:00:00 +00001417memory buffer or to a stdio stream, but you can provide your own manager to
1418do something else. Similarly, the decompression library calls a "source
1419manager" to obtain the compressed data; you can provide your own source
1420manager if you want the data to come from somewhere other than a memory
1421buffer or a stdio stream.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001422
1423In both cases, compressed data is processed a bufferload at a time: the
1424destination or source manager provides a work buffer, and the library invokes
1425the manager only when the buffer is filled or emptied. (You could define a
1426one-character buffer to force the manager to be invoked for each byte, but
1427that would be rather inefficient.) The buffer's size and location are
Guido Vollbeding989630f2010-01-10 00:00:00 +00001428controlled by the manager, not by the library. For example, the memory
1429source manager just makes the buffer pointer and length point to the original
1430data in memory. In this case the buffer-reload procedure will be invoked
1431only if the decompressor ran off the end of the datastream, which would
1432indicate an erroneous datastream.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001433
1434The work buffer is defined as an array of datatype JOCTET, which is generally
1435"char" or "unsigned char". On a machine where char is not exactly 8 bits
1436wide, you must define JOCTET as a wider data type and then modify the data
1437source and destination modules to transcribe the work arrays into 8-bit units
1438on external storage.
1439
1440A data destination manager struct contains a pointer and count defining the
1441next byte to write in the work buffer and the remaining free space:
1442
1443 JOCTET * next_output_byte; /* => next byte to write in buffer */
1444 size_t free_in_buffer; /* # of byte spaces remaining in buffer */
1445
1446The library increments the pointer and decrements the count until the buffer
1447is filled. The manager's empty_output_buffer method must reset the pointer
1448and count. The manager is expected to remember the buffer's starting address
1449and total size in private fields not visible to the library.
1450
1451A data destination manager provides three methods:
1452
1453init_destination (j_compress_ptr cinfo)
1454 Initialize destination. This is called by jpeg_start_compress()
1455 before any data is actually written. It must initialize
1456 next_output_byte and free_in_buffer. free_in_buffer must be
1457 initialized to a positive value.
1458
1459empty_output_buffer (j_compress_ptr cinfo)
1460 This is called whenever the buffer has filled (free_in_buffer
1461 reaches zero). In typical applications, it should write out the
1462 *entire* buffer (use the saved start address and buffer length;
1463 ignore the current state of next_output_byte and free_in_buffer).
1464 Then reset the pointer & count to the start of the buffer, and
1465 return TRUE indicating that the buffer has been dumped.
1466 free_in_buffer must be set to a positive value when TRUE is
1467 returned. A FALSE return should only be used when I/O suspension is
1468 desired (this operating mode is discussed in the next section).
1469
1470term_destination (j_compress_ptr cinfo)
1471 Terminate destination --- called by jpeg_finish_compress() after all
1472 data has been written. In most applications, this must flush any
1473 data remaining in the buffer. Use either next_output_byte or
1474 free_in_buffer to determine how much data is in the buffer.
1475
1476term_destination() is NOT called by jpeg_abort() or jpeg_destroy(). If you
1477want the destination manager to be cleaned up during an abort, you must do it
1478yourself.
1479
1480You will also need code to create a jpeg_destination_mgr struct, fill in its
1481method pointers, and insert a pointer to the struct into the "dest" field of
1482the JPEG compression object. This can be done in-line in your setup code if
1483you like, but it's probably cleaner to provide a separate routine similar to
Guido Vollbeding989630f2010-01-10 00:00:00 +00001484the jpeg_stdio_dest() or jpeg_mem_dest() routines of the supplied destination
1485managers.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001486
1487Decompression source managers follow a parallel design, but with some
1488additional frammishes. The source manager struct contains a pointer and count
1489defining the next byte to read from the work buffer and the number of bytes
1490remaining:
1491
1492 const JOCTET * next_input_byte; /* => next byte to read from buffer */
1493 size_t bytes_in_buffer; /* # of bytes remaining in buffer */
1494
1495The library increments the pointer and decrements the count until the buffer
1496is emptied. The manager's fill_input_buffer method must reset the pointer and
1497count. In most applications, the manager must remember the buffer's starting
1498address and total size in private fields not visible to the library.
1499
1500A data source manager provides five methods:
1501
1502init_source (j_decompress_ptr cinfo)
1503 Initialize source. This is called by jpeg_read_header() before any
1504 data is actually read. Unlike init_destination(), it may leave
1505 bytes_in_buffer set to 0 (in which case a fill_input_buffer() call
1506 will occur immediately).
1507
1508fill_input_buffer (j_decompress_ptr cinfo)
1509 This is called whenever bytes_in_buffer has reached zero and more
1510 data is wanted. In typical applications, it should read fresh data
1511 into the buffer (ignoring the current state of next_input_byte and
1512 bytes_in_buffer), reset the pointer & count to the start of the
1513 buffer, and return TRUE indicating that the buffer has been reloaded.
1514 It is not necessary to fill the buffer entirely, only to obtain at
1515 least one more byte. bytes_in_buffer MUST be set to a positive value
1516 if TRUE is returned. A FALSE return should only be used when I/O
1517 suspension is desired (this mode is discussed in the next section).
1518
1519skip_input_data (j_decompress_ptr cinfo, long num_bytes)
1520 Skip num_bytes worth of data. The buffer pointer and count should
1521 be advanced over num_bytes input bytes, refilling the buffer as
1522 needed. This is used to skip over a potentially large amount of
1523 uninteresting data (such as an APPn marker). In some applications
1524 it may be possible to optimize away the reading of the skipped data,
1525 but it's not clear that being smart is worth much trouble; large
1526 skips are uncommon. bytes_in_buffer may be zero on return.
1527 A zero or negative skip count should be treated as a no-op.
1528
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001529resync_to_restart (j_decompress_ptr cinfo, int desired)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001530 This routine is called only when the decompressor has failed to find
1531 a restart (RSTn) marker where one is expected. Its mission is to
1532 find a suitable point for resuming decompression. For most
1533 applications, we recommend that you just use the default resync
1534 procedure, jpeg_resync_to_restart(). However, if you are able to back
1535 up in the input data stream, or if you have a-priori knowledge about
1536 the likely location of restart markers, you may be able to do better.
1537 Read the read_restart_marker() and jpeg_resync_to_restart() routines
1538 in jdmarker.c if you think you'd like to implement your own resync
1539 procedure.
1540
1541term_source (j_decompress_ptr cinfo)
1542 Terminate source --- called by jpeg_finish_decompress() after all
1543 data has been read. Often a no-op.
1544
1545For both fill_input_buffer() and skip_input_data(), there is no such thing
1546as an EOF return. If the end of the file has been reached, the routine has
1547a choice of exiting via ERREXIT() or inserting fake data into the buffer.
1548In most cases, generating a warning message and inserting a fake EOI marker
1549is the best course of action --- this will allow the decompressor to output
1550however much of the image is there. In pathological cases, the decompressor
1551may swallow the EOI and again demand data ... just keep feeding it fake EOIs.
1552jdatasrc.c illustrates the recommended error recovery behavior.
1553
1554term_source() is NOT called by jpeg_abort() or jpeg_destroy(). If you want
1555the source manager to be cleaned up during an abort, you must do it yourself.
1556
1557You will also need code to create a jpeg_source_mgr struct, fill in its method
1558pointers, and insert a pointer to the struct into the "src" field of the JPEG
1559decompression object. This can be done in-line in your setup code if you
1560like, but it's probably cleaner to provide a separate routine similar to the
Guido Vollbeding989630f2010-01-10 00:00:00 +00001561jpeg_stdio_src() or jpeg_mem_src() routines of the supplied source managers.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001562
Guido Vollbeding989630f2010-01-10 00:00:00 +00001563For more information, consult the memory and stdio source and destination
1564managers in jdatasrc.c and jdatadst.c.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001565
1566
1567I/O suspension
1568--------------
1569
1570Some applications need to use the JPEG library as an incremental memory-to-
1571memory filter: when the compressed data buffer is filled or emptied, they want
1572control to return to the outer loop, rather than expecting that the buffer can
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001573be emptied or reloaded within the data source/destination manager subroutine.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001574The library supports this need by providing an "I/O suspension" mode, which we
1575describe in this section.
1576
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001577The I/O suspension mode is not a panacea: nothing is guaranteed about the
1578maximum amount of time spent in any one call to the library, so it will not
1579eliminate response-time problems in single-threaded applications. If you
1580need guaranteed response time, we suggest you "bite the bullet" and implement
1581a real multi-tasking capability.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001582
1583To use I/O suspension, cooperation is needed between the calling application
1584and the data source or destination manager; you will always need a custom
1585source/destination manager. (Please read the previous section if you haven't
1586already.) The basic idea is that the empty_output_buffer() or
1587fill_input_buffer() routine is a no-op, merely returning FALSE to indicate
1588that it has done nothing. Upon seeing this, the JPEG library suspends
1589operation and returns to its caller. The surrounding application is
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001590responsible for emptying or refilling the work buffer before calling the
1591JPEG library again.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001592
1593Compression suspension:
1594
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001595For compression suspension, use an empty_output_buffer() routine that returns
1596FALSE; typically it will not do anything else. This will cause the
1597compressor to return to the caller of jpeg_write_scanlines(), with the return
1598value indicating that not all the supplied scanlines have been accepted.
1599The application must make more room in the output buffer, adjust the output
1600buffer pointer/count appropriately, and then call jpeg_write_scanlines()
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001601again, pointing to the first unconsumed scanline.
1602
1603When forced to suspend, the compressor will backtrack to a convenient stopping
1604point (usually the start of the current MCU); it will regenerate some output
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001605data when restarted. Therefore, although empty_output_buffer() is only
1606called when the buffer is filled, you should NOT write out the entire buffer
1607after a suspension. Write only the data up to the current position of
1608next_output_byte/free_in_buffer. The data beyond that point will be
1609regenerated after resumption.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001610
1611Because of the backtracking behavior, a good-size output buffer is essential
1612for efficiency; you don't want the compressor to suspend often. (In fact, an
1613overly small buffer could lead to infinite looping, if a single MCU required
1614more data than would fit in the buffer.) We recommend a buffer of at least
1615several Kbytes. You may want to insert explicit code to ensure that you don't
1616call jpeg_write_scanlines() unless there is a reasonable amount of space in
1617the output buffer; in other words, flush the buffer before trying to compress
1618more data.
1619
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001620The compressor does not allow suspension while it is trying to write JPEG
1621markers at the beginning and end of the file. This means that:
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001622 * At the beginning of a compression operation, there must be enough free
1623 space in the output buffer to hold the header markers (typically 600 or
1624 so bytes). The recommended buffer size is bigger than this anyway, so
1625 this is not a problem as long as you start with an empty buffer. However,
1626 this restriction might catch you if you insert large special markers, such
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001627 as a JFIF thumbnail image, without flushing the buffer afterwards.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001628 * When you call jpeg_finish_compress(), there must be enough space in the
1629 output buffer to emit any buffered data and the final EOI marker. In the
1630 current implementation, half a dozen bytes should suffice for this, but
1631 for safety's sake we recommend ensuring that at least 100 bytes are free
1632 before calling jpeg_finish_compress().
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001633
1634A more significant restriction is that jpeg_finish_compress() cannot suspend.
1635This means you cannot use suspension with multi-pass operating modes, namely
1636Huffman code optimization and multiple-scan output. Those modes write the
1637whole file during jpeg_finish_compress(), which will certainly result in
1638buffer overrun. (Note that this restriction applies only to compression,
1639not decompression. The decompressor supports input suspension in all of its
1640operating modes.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001641
1642Decompression suspension:
1643
1644For decompression suspension, use a fill_input_buffer() routine that simply
1645returns FALSE (except perhaps during error recovery, as discussed below).
1646This will cause the decompressor to return to its caller with an indication
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001647that suspension has occurred. This can happen at four places:
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001648 * jpeg_read_header(): will return JPEG_SUSPENDED.
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001649 * jpeg_start_decompress(): will return FALSE, rather than its usual TRUE.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001650 * jpeg_read_scanlines(): will return the number of scanlines already
1651 completed (possibly 0).
1652 * jpeg_finish_decompress(): will return FALSE, rather than its usual TRUE.
1653The surrounding application must recognize these cases, load more data into
1654the input buffer, and repeat the call. In the case of jpeg_read_scanlines(),
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001655increment the passed pointers past any scanlines successfully read.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001656
1657Just as with compression, the decompressor will typically backtrack to a
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001658convenient restart point before suspending. When fill_input_buffer() is
1659called, next_input_byte/bytes_in_buffer point to the current restart point,
1660which is where the decompressor will backtrack to if FALSE is returned.
1661The data beyond that position must NOT be discarded if you suspend; it needs
1662to be re-read upon resumption. In most implementations, you'll need to shift
1663this data down to the start of your work buffer and then load more data after
1664it. Again, this behavior means that a several-Kbyte work buffer is essential
1665for decent performance; furthermore, you should load a reasonable amount of
1666new data before resuming decompression. (If you loaded, say, only one new
1667byte each time around, you could waste a LOT of cycles.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001668
1669The skip_input_data() source manager routine requires special care in a
1670suspension scenario. This routine is NOT granted the ability to suspend the
1671decompressor; it can decrement bytes_in_buffer to zero, but no more. If the
1672requested skip distance exceeds the amount of data currently in the input
1673buffer, then skip_input_data() must set bytes_in_buffer to zero and record the
1674additional skip distance somewhere else. The decompressor will immediately
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001675call fill_input_buffer(), which should return FALSE, which will cause a
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001676suspension return. The surrounding application must then arrange to discard
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001677the recorded number of bytes before it resumes loading the input buffer.
1678(Yes, this design is rather baroque, but it avoids complexity in the far more
1679common case where a non-suspending source manager is used.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001680
1681If the input data has been exhausted, we recommend that you emit a warning
1682and insert dummy EOI markers just as a non-suspending data source manager
1683would do. This can be handled either in the surrounding application logic or
1684within fill_input_buffer(); the latter is probably more efficient. If
1685fill_input_buffer() knows that no more data is available, it can set the
1686pointer/count to point to a dummy EOI marker and then return TRUE just as
1687though it had read more data in a non-suspending situation.
1688
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00001689The decompressor does not attempt to suspend within standard JPEG markers;
1690instead it will backtrack to the start of the marker and reprocess the whole
1691marker next time. Hence the input buffer must be large enough to hold the
1692longest standard marker in the file. Standard JPEG markers should normally
1693not exceed a few hundred bytes each (DHT tables are typically the longest).
1694We recommend at least a 2K buffer for performance reasons, which is much
1695larger than any correct marker is likely to be. For robustness against
1696damaged marker length counts, you may wish to insert a test in your
1697application for the case that the input buffer is completely full and yet
1698the decoder has suspended without consuming any data --- otherwise, if this
1699situation did occur, it would lead to an endless loop. (The library can't
1700provide this test since it has no idea whether "the buffer is full", or
1701even whether there is a fixed-size input buffer.)
1702
1703The input buffer would need to be 64K to allow for arbitrary COM or APPn
1704markers, but these are handled specially: they are either saved into allocated
1705memory, or skipped over by calling skip_input_data(). In the former case,
1706suspension is handled correctly, and in the latter case, the problem of
1707buffer overrun is placed on skip_input_data's shoulders, as explained above.
1708Note that if you provide your own marker handling routine for large markers,
1709you should consider how to deal with buffer overflow.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00001710
Thomas G. Lane9ba2f5e1994-12-07 00:00:00 +00001711Multiple-buffer management:
1712
1713In some applications it is desirable to store the compressed data in a linked
1714list of buffer areas, so as to avoid data copying. This can be handled by
1715having empty_output_buffer() or fill_input_buffer() set the pointer and count
1716to reference the next available buffer; FALSE is returned only if no more
1717buffers are available. Although seemingly straightforward, there is a
1718pitfall in this approach: the backtrack that occurs when FALSE is returned
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001719could back up into an earlier buffer. For example, when fill_input_buffer()
1720is called, the current pointer & count indicate the backtrack restart point.
1721Since fill_input_buffer() will set the pointer and count to refer to a new
1722buffer, the restart position must be saved somewhere else. Suppose a second
1723call to fill_input_buffer() occurs in the same library call, and no
1724additional input data is available, so fill_input_buffer must return FALSE.
1725If the JPEG library has not moved the pointer/count forward in the current
1726buffer, then *the correct restart point is the saved position in the prior
1727buffer*. Prior buffers may be discarded only after the library establishes
1728a restart point within a later buffer. Similar remarks apply for output into
1729a chain of buffers.
1730
1731The library will never attempt to backtrack over a skip_input_data() call,
1732so any skipped data can be permanently discarded. You still have to deal
1733with the case of skipping not-yet-received data, however.
1734
1735It's much simpler to use only a single buffer; when fill_input_buffer() is
1736called, move any unconsumed data (beyond the current pointer/count) down to
1737the beginning of this buffer and then load new data into the remaining buffer
1738space. This approach requires a little more data copying but is far easier
1739to get right.
1740
1741
1742Progressive JPEG support
1743------------------------
1744
1745Progressive JPEG rearranges the stored data into a series of scans of
1746increasing quality. In situations where a JPEG file is transmitted across a
1747slow communications link, a decoder can generate a low-quality image very
1748quickly from the first scan, then gradually improve the displayed quality as
1749more scans are received. The final image after all scans are complete is
1750identical to that of a regular (sequential) JPEG file of the same quality
1751setting. Progressive JPEG files are often slightly smaller than equivalent
1752sequential JPEG files, but the possibility of incremental display is the main
1753reason for using progressive JPEG.
1754
1755The IJG encoder library generates progressive JPEG files when given a
1756suitable "scan script" defining how to divide the data into scans.
1757Creation of progressive JPEG files is otherwise transparent to the encoder.
1758Progressive JPEG files can also be read transparently by the decoder library.
1759If the decoding application simply uses the library as defined above, it
1760will receive a final decoded image without any indication that the file was
1761progressive. Of course, this approach does not allow incremental display.
1762To perform incremental display, an application needs to use the decoder
1763library's "buffered-image" mode, in which it receives a decoded image
1764multiple times.
1765
1766Each displayed scan requires about as much work to decode as a full JPEG
1767image of the same size, so the decoder must be fairly fast in relation to the
1768data transmission rate in order to make incremental display useful. However,
1769it is possible to skip displaying the image and simply add the incoming bits
1770to the decoder's coefficient buffer. This is fast because only Huffman
1771decoding need be done, not IDCT, upsampling, colorspace conversion, etc.
1772The IJG decoder library allows the application to switch dynamically between
1773displaying the image and simply absorbing the incoming bits. A properly
1774coded application can automatically adapt the number of display passes to
1775suit the time available as the image is received. Also, a final
1776higher-quality display cycle can be performed from the buffered data after
1777the end of the file is reached.
1778
1779Progressive compression:
1780
1781To create a progressive JPEG file (or a multiple-scan sequential JPEG file),
1782set the scan_info cinfo field to point to an array of scan descriptors, and
1783perform compression as usual. Instead of constructing your own scan list,
1784you can call the jpeg_simple_progression() helper routine to create a
1785recommended progression sequence; this method should be used by all
1786applications that don't want to get involved in the nitty-gritty of
1787progressive scan sequence design. (If you want to provide user control of
1788scan sequences, you may wish to borrow the scan script reading code found
1789in rdswitch.c, so that you can read scan script files just like cjpeg's.)
1790When scan_info is not NULL, the compression library will store DCT'd data
1791into a buffer array as jpeg_write_scanlines() is called, and will emit all
1792the requested scans during jpeg_finish_compress(). This implies that
1793multiple-scan output cannot be created with a suspending data destination
1794manager, since jpeg_finish_compress() does not support suspension. We
1795should also note that the compressor currently forces Huffman optimization
1796mode when creating a progressive JPEG file, because the default Huffman
1797tables are unsuitable for progressive files.
1798
1799Progressive decompression:
1800
1801When buffered-image mode is not used, the decoder library will read all of
1802a multi-scan file during jpeg_start_decompress(), so that it can provide a
1803final decoded image. (Here "multi-scan" means either progressive or
1804multi-scan sequential.) This makes multi-scan files transparent to the
1805decoding application. However, existing applications that used suspending
1806input with version 5 of the IJG library will need to be modified to check
1807for a suspension return from jpeg_start_decompress().
1808
1809To perform incremental display, an application must use the library's
1810buffered-image mode. This is described in the next section.
1811
1812
1813Buffered-image mode
1814-------------------
1815
1816In buffered-image mode, the library stores the partially decoded image in a
1817coefficient buffer, from which it can be read out as many times as desired.
1818This mode is typically used for incremental display of progressive JPEG files,
1819but it can be used with any JPEG file. Each scan of a progressive JPEG file
1820adds more data (more detail) to the buffered image. The application can
1821display in lockstep with the source file (one display pass per input scan),
1822or it can allow input processing to outrun display processing. By making
1823input and display processing run independently, it is possible for the
1824application to adapt progressive display to a wide range of data transmission
1825rates.
1826
1827The basic control flow for buffered-image decoding is
1828
1829 jpeg_create_decompress()
1830 set data source
1831 jpeg_read_header()
1832 set overall decompression parameters
1833 cinfo.buffered_image = TRUE; /* select buffered-image mode */
1834 jpeg_start_decompress()
1835 for (each output pass) {
1836 adjust output decompression parameters if required
1837 jpeg_start_output() /* start a new output pass */
1838 for (all scanlines in image) {
1839 jpeg_read_scanlines()
1840 display scanlines
1841 }
1842 jpeg_finish_output() /* terminate output pass */
1843 }
1844 jpeg_finish_decompress()
1845 jpeg_destroy_decompress()
1846
1847This differs from ordinary unbuffered decoding in that there is an additional
1848level of looping. The application can choose how many output passes to make
1849and how to display each pass.
1850
1851The simplest approach to displaying progressive images is to do one display
1852pass for each scan appearing in the input file. In this case the outer loop
1853condition is typically
1854 while (! jpeg_input_complete(&cinfo))
1855and the start-output call should read
1856 jpeg_start_output(&cinfo, cinfo.input_scan_number);
1857The second parameter to jpeg_start_output() indicates which scan of the input
1858file is to be displayed; the scans are numbered starting at 1 for this
1859purpose. (You can use a loop counter starting at 1 if you like, but using
1860the library's input scan counter is easier.) The library automatically reads
1861data as necessary to complete each requested scan, and jpeg_finish_output()
1862advances to the next scan or end-of-image marker (hence input_scan_number
1863will be incremented by the time control arrives back at jpeg_start_output()).
1864With this technique, data is read from the input file only as needed, and
1865input and output processing run in lockstep.
1866
1867After reading the final scan and reaching the end of the input file, the
1868buffered image remains available; it can be read additional times by
1869repeating the jpeg_start_output()/jpeg_read_scanlines()/jpeg_finish_output()
1870sequence. For example, a useful technique is to use fast one-pass color
1871quantization for display passes made while the image is arriving, followed by
1872a final display pass using two-pass quantization for highest quality. This
1873is done by changing the library parameters before the final output pass.
1874Changing parameters between passes is discussed in detail below.
1875
1876In general the last scan of a progressive file cannot be recognized as such
1877until after it is read, so a post-input display pass is the best approach if
1878you want special processing in the final pass.
1879
1880When done with the image, be sure to call jpeg_finish_decompress() to release
1881the buffered image (or just use jpeg_destroy_decompress()).
1882
1883If input data arrives faster than it can be displayed, the application can
1884cause the library to decode input data in advance of what's needed to produce
1885output. This is done by calling the routine jpeg_consume_input().
1886The return value is one of the following:
1887 JPEG_REACHED_SOS: reached an SOS marker (the start of a new scan)
1888 JPEG_REACHED_EOI: reached the EOI marker (end of image)
1889 JPEG_ROW_COMPLETED: completed reading one MCU row of compressed data
1890 JPEG_SCAN_COMPLETED: completed reading last MCU row of current scan
1891 JPEG_SUSPENDED: suspended before completing any of the above
1892(JPEG_SUSPENDED can occur only if a suspending data source is used.) This
1893routine can be called at any time after initializing the JPEG object. It
1894reads some additional data and returns when one of the indicated significant
1895events occurs. (If called after the EOI marker is reached, it will
1896immediately return JPEG_REACHED_EOI without attempting to read more data.)
1897
1898The library's output processing will automatically call jpeg_consume_input()
1899whenever the output processing overtakes the input; thus, simple lockstep
1900display requires no direct calls to jpeg_consume_input(). But by adding
1901calls to jpeg_consume_input(), you can absorb data in advance of what is
1902being displayed. This has two benefits:
1903 * You can limit buildup of unprocessed data in your input buffer.
1904 * You can eliminate extra display passes by paying attention to the
1905 state of the library's input processing.
1906
1907The first of these benefits only requires interspersing calls to
1908jpeg_consume_input() with your display operations and any other processing
1909you may be doing. To avoid wasting cycles due to backtracking, it's best to
1910call jpeg_consume_input() only after a hundred or so new bytes have arrived.
1911This is discussed further under "I/O suspension", above. (Note: the JPEG
1912library currently is not thread-safe. You must not call jpeg_consume_input()
1913from one thread of control if a different library routine is working on the
1914same JPEG object in another thread.)
1915
1916When input arrives fast enough that more than one new scan is available
1917before you start a new output pass, you may as well skip the output pass
1918corresponding to the completed scan. This occurs for free if you pass
1919cinfo.input_scan_number as the target scan number to jpeg_start_output().
1920The input_scan_number field is simply the index of the scan currently being
1921consumed by the input processor. You can ensure that this is up-to-date by
1922emptying the input buffer just before calling jpeg_start_output(): call
1923jpeg_consume_input() repeatedly until it returns JPEG_SUSPENDED or
1924JPEG_REACHED_EOI.
1925
1926The target scan number passed to jpeg_start_output() is saved in the
1927cinfo.output_scan_number field. The library's output processing calls
1928jpeg_consume_input() whenever the current input scan number and row within
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +00001929that scan is less than or equal to the current output scan number and row.
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001930Thus, input processing can "get ahead" of the output processing but is not
1931allowed to "fall behind". You can achieve several different effects by
1932manipulating this interlock rule. For example, if you pass a target scan
1933number greater than the current input scan number, the output processor will
1934wait until that scan starts to arrive before producing any output. (To avoid
1935an infinite loop, the target scan number is automatically reset to the last
1936scan number when the end of image is reached. Thus, if you specify a large
1937target scan number, the library will just absorb the entire input file and
1938then perform an output pass. This is effectively the same as what
1939jpeg_start_decompress() does when you don't select buffered-image mode.)
1940When you pass a target scan number equal to the current input scan number,
1941the image is displayed no faster than the current input scan arrives. The
1942final possibility is to pass a target scan number less than the current input
1943scan number; this disables the input/output interlock and causes the output
1944processor to simply display whatever it finds in the image buffer, without
1945waiting for input. (However, the library will not accept a target scan
1946number less than one, so you can't avoid waiting for the first scan.)
1947
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +00001948When data is arriving faster than the output display processing can advance
1949through the image, jpeg_consume_input() will store data into the buffered
1950image beyond the point at which the output processing is reading data out
1951again. If the input arrives fast enough, it may "wrap around" the buffer to
1952the point where the input is more than one whole scan ahead of the output.
1953If the output processing simply proceeds through its display pass without
1954paying attention to the input, the effect seen on-screen is that the lower
1955part of the image is one or more scans better in quality than the upper part.
1956Then, when the next output scan is started, you have a choice of what target
1957scan number to use. The recommended choice is to use the current input scan
1958number at that time, which implies that you've skipped the output scans
1959corresponding to the input scans that were completed while you processed the
1960previous output scan. In this way, the decoder automatically adapts its
1961speed to the arriving data, by skipping output scans as necessary to keep up
1962with the arriving data.
1963
1964When using this strategy, you'll want to be sure that you perform a final
1965output pass after receiving all the data; otherwise your last display may not
1966be full quality across the whole screen. So the right outer loop logic is
1967something like this:
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001968 do {
1969 absorb any waiting input by calling jpeg_consume_input()
1970 final_pass = jpeg_input_complete(&cinfo);
1971 adjust output decompression parameters if required
1972 jpeg_start_output(&cinfo, cinfo.input_scan_number);
1973 ...
1974 jpeg_finish_output()
1975 } while (! final_pass);
1976rather than quitting as soon as jpeg_input_complete() returns TRUE. This
1977arrangement makes it simple to use higher-quality decoding parameters
1978for the final pass. But if you don't want to use special parameters for
1979the final pass, the right loop logic is like this:
1980 for (;;) {
1981 absorb any waiting input by calling jpeg_consume_input()
1982 jpeg_start_output(&cinfo, cinfo.input_scan_number);
1983 ...
1984 jpeg_finish_output()
1985 if (jpeg_input_complete(&cinfo) &&
1986 cinfo.input_scan_number == cinfo.output_scan_number)
1987 break;
1988 }
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +00001989In this case you don't need to know in advance whether an output pass is to
1990be the last one, so it's not necessary to have reached EOF before starting
1991the final output pass; rather, what you want to test is whether the output
1992pass was performed in sync with the final input scan. This form of the loop
1993will avoid an extra output pass whenever the decoder is able (or nearly able)
1994to keep up with the incoming data.
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001995
1996When the data transmission speed is high, you might begin a display pass,
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +00001997then find that much or all of the file has arrived before you can complete
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00001998the pass. (You can detect this by noting the JPEG_REACHED_EOI return code
1999from jpeg_consume_input(), or equivalently by testing jpeg_input_complete().)
2000In this situation you may wish to abort the current display pass and start a
2001new one using the newly arrived information. To do so, just call
2002jpeg_finish_output() and then start a new pass with jpeg_start_output().
2003
2004A variant strategy is to abort and restart display if more than one complete
2005scan arrives during an output pass; this can be detected by noting
2006JPEG_REACHED_SOS returns and/or examining cinfo.input_scan_number. This
2007idea should be employed with caution, however, since the display process
2008might never get to the bottom of the image before being aborted, resulting
2009in the lower part of the screen being several passes worse than the upper.
2010In most cases it's probably best to abort an output pass only if the whole
2011file has arrived and you want to begin the final output pass immediately.
2012
2013When receiving data across a communication link, we recommend always using
2014the current input scan number for the output target scan number; if a
2015higher-quality final pass is to be done, it should be started (aborting any
2016incomplete output pass) as soon as the end of file is received. However,
2017many other strategies are possible. For example, the application can examine
2018the parameters of the current input scan and decide whether to display it or
2019not. If the scan contains only chroma data, one might choose not to use it
2020as the target scan, expecting that the scan will be small and will arrive
2021quickly. To skip to the next scan, call jpeg_consume_input() until it
2022returns JPEG_REACHED_SOS or JPEG_REACHED_EOI. Or just use the next higher
2023number as the target scan for jpeg_start_output(); but that method doesn't
2024let you inspect the next scan's parameters before deciding to display it.
2025
2026
2027In buffered-image mode, jpeg_start_decompress() never performs input and
2028thus never suspends. An application that uses input suspension with
2029buffered-image mode must be prepared for suspension returns from these
2030routines:
2031* jpeg_start_output() performs input only if you request 2-pass quantization
2032 and the target scan isn't fully read yet. (This is discussed below.)
2033* jpeg_read_scanlines(), as always, returns the number of scanlines that it
2034 was able to produce before suspending.
2035* jpeg_finish_output() will read any markers following the target scan,
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +00002036 up to the end of the file or the SOS marker that begins another scan.
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002037 (But it reads no input if jpeg_consume_input() has already reached the
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +00002038 end of the file or a SOS marker beyond the target output scan.)
2039* jpeg_finish_decompress() will read until the end of file, and thus can
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002040 suspend if the end hasn't already been reached (as can be tested by
2041 calling jpeg_input_complete()).
2042jpeg_start_output(), jpeg_finish_output(), and jpeg_finish_decompress()
2043all return TRUE if they completed their tasks, FALSE if they had to suspend.
2044In the event of a FALSE return, the application must load more input data
2045and repeat the call. Applications that use non-suspending data sources need
2046not check the return values of these three routines.
2047
2048
2049It is possible to change decoding parameters between output passes in the
2050buffered-image mode. The decoder library currently supports only very
2051limited changes of parameters. ONLY THE FOLLOWING parameter changes are
2052allowed after jpeg_start_decompress() is called:
2053* dct_method can be changed before each call to jpeg_start_output().
2054 For example, one could use a fast DCT method for early scans, changing
2055 to a higher quality method for the final scan.
2056* dither_mode can be changed before each call to jpeg_start_output();
2057 of course this has no impact if not using color quantization. Typically
2058 one would use ordered dither for initial passes, then switch to
2059 Floyd-Steinberg dither for the final pass. Caution: changing dither mode
2060 can cause more memory to be allocated by the library. Although the amount
2061 of memory involved is not large (a scanline or so), it may cause the
2062 initial max_memory_to_use specification to be exceeded, which in the worst
2063 case would result in an out-of-memory failure.
2064* do_block_smoothing can be changed before each call to jpeg_start_output().
2065 This setting is relevant only when decoding a progressive JPEG image.
2066 During the first DC-only scan, block smoothing provides a very "fuzzy" look
2067 instead of the very "blocky" look seen without it; which is better seems a
2068 matter of personal taste. But block smoothing is nearly always a win
2069 during later stages, especially when decoding a successive-approximation
2070 image: smoothing helps to hide the slight blockiness that otherwise shows
2071 up on smooth gradients until the lowest coefficient bits are sent.
2072* Color quantization mode can be changed under the rules described below.
2073 You *cannot* change between full-color and quantized output (because that
2074 would alter the required I/O buffer sizes), but you can change which
2075 quantization method is used.
2076
2077When generating color-quantized output, changing quantization method is a
2078very useful way of switching between high-speed and high-quality display.
2079The library allows you to change among its three quantization methods:
20801. Single-pass quantization to a fixed color cube.
2081 Selected by cinfo.two_pass_quantize = FALSE and cinfo.colormap = NULL.
20822. Single-pass quantization to an application-supplied colormap.
2083 Selected by setting cinfo.colormap to point to the colormap (the value of
2084 two_pass_quantize is ignored); also set cinfo.actual_number_of_colors.
20853. Two-pass quantization to a colormap chosen specifically for the image.
2086 Selected by cinfo.two_pass_quantize = TRUE and cinfo.colormap = NULL.
2087 (This is the default setting selected by jpeg_read_header, but it is
2088 probably NOT what you want for the first pass of progressive display!)
2089These methods offer successively better quality and lesser speed. However,
2090only the first method is available for quantizing in non-RGB color spaces.
2091
2092IMPORTANT: because the different quantizer methods have very different
2093working-storage requirements, the library requires you to indicate which
2094one(s) you intend to use before you call jpeg_start_decompress(). (If we did
2095not require this, the max_memory_to_use setting would be a complete fiction.)
2096You do this by setting one or more of these three cinfo fields to TRUE:
2097 enable_1pass_quant Fixed color cube colormap
2098 enable_external_quant Externally-supplied colormap
2099 enable_2pass_quant Two-pass custom colormap
2100All three are initialized FALSE by jpeg_read_header(). But
2101jpeg_start_decompress() automatically sets TRUE the one selected by the
2102current two_pass_quantize and colormap settings, so you only need to set the
2103enable flags for any other quantization methods you plan to change to later.
2104
2105After setting the enable flags correctly at jpeg_start_decompress() time, you
2106can change to any enabled quantization method by setting two_pass_quantize
2107and colormap properly just before calling jpeg_start_output(). The following
2108special rules apply:
21091. You must explicitly set cinfo.colormap to NULL when switching to 1-pass
2110 or 2-pass mode from a different mode, or when you want the 2-pass
2111 quantizer to be re-run to generate a new colormap.
21122. To switch to an external colormap, or to change to a different external
2113 colormap than was used on the prior pass, you must call
2114 jpeg_new_colormap() after setting cinfo.colormap.
2115NOTE: if you want to use the same colormap as was used in the prior pass,
2116you should not do either of these things. This will save some nontrivial
2117switchover costs.
2118(These requirements exist because cinfo.colormap will always be non-NULL
2119after completing a prior output pass, since both the 1-pass and 2-pass
2120quantizers set it to point to their output colormaps. Thus you have to
2121do one of these two things to notify the library that something has changed.
2122Yup, it's a bit klugy, but it's necessary to do it this way for backwards
2123compatibility.)
2124
2125Note that in buffered-image mode, the library generates any requested colormap
2126during jpeg_start_output(), not during jpeg_start_decompress().
2127
2128When using two-pass quantization, jpeg_start_output() makes a pass over the
2129buffered image to determine the optimum color map; it therefore may take a
2130significant amount of time, whereas ordinarily it does little work. The
2131progress monitor hook is called during this pass, if defined. It is also
2132important to realize that if the specified target scan number is greater than
2133or equal to the current input scan number, jpeg_start_output() will attempt
2134to consume input as it makes this pass. If you use a suspending data source,
2135you need to check for a FALSE return from jpeg_start_output() under these
2136conditions. The combination of 2-pass quantization and a not-yet-fully-read
2137target scan is the only case in which jpeg_start_output() will consume input.
2138
2139
2140Application authors who support buffered-image mode may be tempted to use it
2141for all JPEG images, even single-scan ones. This will work, but it is
2142inefficient: there is no need to create an image-sized coefficient buffer for
2143single-scan images. Requesting buffered-image mode for such an image wastes
2144memory. Worse, it can cost time on large images, since the buffered data has
2145to be swapped out or written to a temporary file. If you are concerned about
2146maximum performance on baseline JPEG files, you should use buffered-image
2147mode only when the incoming file actually has multiple scans. This can be
2148tested by calling jpeg_has_multiple_scans(), which will return a correct
2149result at any time after jpeg_read_header() completes.
2150
2151It is also worth noting that when you use jpeg_consume_input() to let input
2152processing get ahead of output processing, the resulting pattern of access to
2153the coefficient buffer is quite nonsequential. It's best to use the memory
2154manager jmemnobs.c if you can (ie, if you have enough real or virtual main
2155memory). If not, at least make sure that max_memory_to_use is set as high as
2156possible. If the JPEG memory manager has to use a temporary file, you will
2157probably see a lot of disk traffic and poor performance. (This could be
2158improved with additional work on the memory manager, but we haven't gotten
2159around to it yet.)
2160
2161In some applications it may be convenient to use jpeg_consume_input() for all
2162input processing, including reading the initial markers; that is, you may
2163wish to call jpeg_consume_input() instead of jpeg_read_header() during
2164startup. This works, but note that you must check for JPEG_REACHED_SOS and
2165JPEG_REACHED_EOI return codes as the equivalent of jpeg_read_header's codes.
2166Once the first SOS marker has been reached, you must call
2167jpeg_start_decompress() before jpeg_consume_input() will consume more input;
2168it'll just keep returning JPEG_REACHED_SOS until you do. If you read a
2169tables-only file this way, jpeg_consume_input() will return JPEG_REACHED_EOI
2170without ever returning JPEG_REACHED_SOS; be sure to check for this case.
2171If this happens, the decompressor will not read any more input until you call
2172jpeg_abort() to reset it. It is OK to call jpeg_consume_input() even when not
2173using buffered-image mode, but in that case it's basically a no-op after the
2174initial markers have been read: it will just return JPEG_SUSPENDED.
Thomas G. Lane9ba2f5e1994-12-07 00:00:00 +00002175
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002176
2177Abbreviated datastreams and multiple images
2178-------------------------------------------
2179
2180A JPEG compression or decompression object can be reused to process multiple
2181images. This saves a small amount of time per image by eliminating the
2182"create" and "destroy" operations, but that isn't the real purpose of the
2183feature. Rather, reuse of an object provides support for abbreviated JPEG
2184datastreams. Object reuse can also simplify processing a series of images in
2185a single input or output file. This section explains these features.
2186
2187A JPEG file normally contains several hundred bytes worth of quantization
2188and Huffman tables. In a situation where many images will be stored or
2189transmitted with identical tables, this may represent an annoying overhead.
2190The JPEG standard therefore permits tables to be omitted. The standard
2191defines three classes of JPEG datastreams:
2192 * "Interchange" datastreams contain an image and all tables needed to decode
2193 the image. These are the usual kind of JPEG file.
2194 * "Abbreviated image" datastreams contain an image, but are missing some or
2195 all of the tables needed to decode that image.
2196 * "Abbreviated table specification" (henceforth "tables-only") datastreams
2197 contain only table specifications.
2198To decode an abbreviated image, it is necessary to load the missing table(s)
2199into the decoder beforehand. This can be accomplished by reading a separate
2200tables-only file. A variant scheme uses a series of images in which the first
2201image is an interchange (complete) datastream, while subsequent ones are
2202abbreviated and rely on the tables loaded by the first image. It is assumed
2203that once the decoder has read a table, it will remember that table until a
2204new definition for the same table number is encountered.
2205
2206It is the application designer's responsibility to figure out how to associate
2207the correct tables with an abbreviated image. While abbreviated datastreams
2208can be useful in a closed environment, their use is strongly discouraged in
2209any situation where data exchange with other applications might be needed.
2210Caveat designer.
2211
2212The JPEG library provides support for reading and writing any combination of
2213tables-only datastreams and abbreviated images. In both compression and
2214decompression objects, a quantization or Huffman table will be retained for
2215the lifetime of the object, unless it is overwritten by a new table definition.
2216
2217
2218To create abbreviated image datastreams, it is only necessary to tell the
2219compressor not to emit some or all of the tables it is using. Each
2220quantization and Huffman table struct contains a boolean field "sent_table",
2221which normally is initialized to FALSE. For each table used by the image, the
2222header-writing process emits the table and sets sent_table = TRUE unless it is
2223already TRUE. (In normal usage, this prevents outputting the same table
2224definition multiple times, as would otherwise occur because the chroma
2225components typically share tables.) Thus, setting this field to TRUE before
2226calling jpeg_start_compress() will prevent the table from being written at
2227all.
2228
2229If you want to create a "pure" abbreviated image file containing no tables,
2230just call "jpeg_suppress_tables(&cinfo, TRUE)" after constructing all the
2231tables. If you want to emit some but not all tables, you'll need to set the
2232individual sent_table fields directly.
2233
2234To create an abbreviated image, you must also call jpeg_start_compress()
2235with a second parameter of FALSE, not TRUE. Otherwise jpeg_start_compress()
2236will force all the sent_table fields to FALSE. (This is a safety feature to
2237prevent abbreviated images from being created accidentally.)
2238
2239To create a tables-only file, perform the same parameter setup that you
2240normally would, but instead of calling jpeg_start_compress() and so on, call
2241jpeg_write_tables(&cinfo). This will write an abbreviated datastream
2242containing only SOI, DQT and/or DHT markers, and EOI. All the quantization
2243and Huffman tables that are currently defined in the compression object will
2244be emitted unless their sent_tables flag is already TRUE, and then all the
2245sent_tables flags will be set TRUE.
2246
2247A sure-fire way to create matching tables-only and abbreviated image files
2248is to proceed as follows:
2249
2250 create JPEG compression object
2251 set JPEG parameters
2252 set destination to tables-only file
2253 jpeg_write_tables(&cinfo);
2254 set destination to image file
2255 jpeg_start_compress(&cinfo, FALSE);
2256 write data...
2257 jpeg_finish_compress(&cinfo);
2258
2259Since the JPEG parameters are not altered between writing the table file and
2260the abbreviated image file, the same tables are sure to be used. Of course,
2261you can repeat the jpeg_start_compress() ... jpeg_finish_compress() sequence
2262many times to produce many abbreviated image files matching the table file.
2263
2264You cannot suppress output of the computed Huffman tables when Huffman
2265optimization is selected. (If you could, there'd be no way to decode the
2266image...) Generally, you don't want to set optimize_coding = TRUE when
2267you are trying to produce abbreviated files.
2268
2269In some cases you might want to compress an image using tables which are
2270not stored in the application, but are defined in an interchange or
2271tables-only file readable by the application. This can be done by setting up
2272a JPEG decompression object to read the specification file, then copying the
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +00002273tables into your compression object. See jpeg_copy_critical_parameters()
2274for an example of copying quantization tables.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002275
2276
2277To read abbreviated image files, you simply need to load the proper tables
2278into the decompression object before trying to read the abbreviated image.
2279If the proper tables are stored in the application program, you can just
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002280allocate the table structs and fill in their contents directly. For example,
2281to load a fixed quantization table into table slot "n":
2282
2283 if (cinfo.quant_tbl_ptrs[n] == NULL)
2284 cinfo.quant_tbl_ptrs[n] = jpeg_alloc_quant_table((j_common_ptr) &cinfo);
2285 quant_ptr = cinfo.quant_tbl_ptrs[n]; /* quant_ptr is JQUANT_TBL* */
2286 for (i = 0; i < 64; i++) {
2287 /* Qtable[] is desired quantization table, in natural array order */
2288 quant_ptr->quantval[i] = Qtable[i];
2289 }
2290
2291Code to load a fixed Huffman table is typically (for AC table "n"):
2292
2293 if (cinfo.ac_huff_tbl_ptrs[n] == NULL)
2294 cinfo.ac_huff_tbl_ptrs[n] = jpeg_alloc_huff_table((j_common_ptr) &cinfo);
2295 huff_ptr = cinfo.ac_huff_tbl_ptrs[n]; /* huff_ptr is JHUFF_TBL* */
2296 for (i = 1; i <= 16; i++) {
2297 /* counts[i] is number of Huffman codes of length i bits, i=1..16 */
2298 huff_ptr->bits[i] = counts[i];
2299 }
2300 for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
2301 /* symbols[] is the list of Huffman symbols, in code-length order */
2302 huff_ptr->huffval[i] = symbols[i];
2303 }
2304
2305(Note that trying to set cinfo.quant_tbl_ptrs[n] to point directly at a
2306constant JQUANT_TBL object is not safe. If the incoming file happened to
2307contain a quantization table definition, your master table would get
2308overwritten! Instead allocate a working table copy and copy the master table
2309into it, as illustrated above. Ditto for Huffman tables, of course.)
2310
2311You might want to read the tables from a tables-only file, rather than
2312hard-wiring them into your application. The jpeg_read_header() call is
2313sufficient to read a tables-only file. You must pass a second parameter of
2314FALSE to indicate that you do not require an image to be present. Thus, the
2315typical scenario is
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002316
2317 create JPEG decompression object
2318 set source to tables-only file
2319 jpeg_read_header(&cinfo, FALSE);
2320 set source to abbreviated image file
2321 jpeg_read_header(&cinfo, TRUE);
2322 set decompression parameters
2323 jpeg_start_decompress(&cinfo);
2324 read data...
2325 jpeg_finish_decompress(&cinfo);
2326
2327In some cases, you may want to read a file without knowing whether it contains
2328an image or just tables. In that case, pass FALSE and check the return value
2329from jpeg_read_header(): it will be JPEG_HEADER_OK if an image was found,
2330JPEG_HEADER_TABLES_ONLY if only tables were found. (A third return value,
2331JPEG_SUSPENDED, is possible when using a suspending data source manager.)
2332Note that jpeg_read_header() will not complain if you read an abbreviated
2333image for which you haven't loaded the missing tables; the missing-table check
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002334occurs later, in jpeg_start_decompress().
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002335
2336
2337It is possible to read a series of images from a single source file by
2338repeating the jpeg_read_header() ... jpeg_finish_decompress() sequence,
2339without releasing/recreating the JPEG object or the data source module.
2340(If you did reinitialize, any partial bufferload left in the data source
2341buffer at the end of one image would be discarded, causing you to lose the
2342start of the next image.) When you use this method, stored tables are
2343automatically carried forward, so some of the images can be abbreviated images
2344that depend on tables from earlier images.
2345
2346If you intend to write a series of images into a single destination file,
2347you might want to make a specialized data destination module that doesn't
2348flush the output buffer at term_destination() time. This would speed things
2349up by some trifling amount. Of course, you'd need to remember to flush the
2350buffer after the last image. You can make the later images be abbreviated
2351ones by passing FALSE to jpeg_start_compress().
2352
2353
2354Special markers
2355---------------
2356
2357Some applications may need to insert or extract special data in the JPEG
2358datastream. The JPEG standard provides marker types "COM" (comment) and
2359"APP0" through "APP15" (application) to hold application-specific data.
2360Unfortunately, the use of these markers is not specified by the standard.
2361COM markers are fairly widely used to hold user-supplied text. The JFIF file
2362format spec uses APP0 markers with specified initial strings to hold certain
2363data. Adobe applications use APP14 markers beginning with the string "Adobe"
2364for miscellaneous data. Other APPn markers are rarely seen, but might
2365contain almost anything.
2366
2367If you wish to store user-supplied text, we recommend you use COM markers
2368and place readable 7-bit ASCII text in them. Newline conventions are not
2369standardized --- expect to find LF (Unix style), CR/LF (DOS style), or CR
2370(Mac style). A robust COM reader should be able to cope with random binary
2371garbage, including nulls, since some applications generate COM markers
2372containing non-ASCII junk. (But yours should not be one of them.)
2373
2374For program-supplied data, use an APPn marker, and be sure to begin it with an
2375identifying string so that you can tell whether the marker is actually yours.
2376It's probably best to avoid using APP0 or APP14 for any private markers.
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002377(NOTE: the upcoming SPIFF standard will use APP8 markers; we recommend you
2378not use APP8 markers for any private purposes, either.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002379
2380Keep in mind that at most 65533 bytes can be put into one marker, but you
2381can have as many markers as you like.
2382
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002383By default, the IJG compression library will write a JFIF APP0 marker if the
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002384selected JPEG colorspace is grayscale or YCbCr, or an Adobe APP14 marker if
2385the selected colorspace is RGB, CMYK, or YCCK. You can disable this, but
2386we don't recommend it. The decompression library will recognize JFIF and
2387Adobe markers and will set the JPEG colorspace properly when one is found.
2388
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002389
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002390You can write special markers immediately following the datastream header by
2391calling jpeg_write_marker() after jpeg_start_compress() and before the first
2392call to jpeg_write_scanlines(). When you do this, the markers appear after
2393the SOI and the JFIF APP0 and Adobe APP14 markers (if written), but before
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002394all else. Specify the marker type parameter as "JPEG_COM" for COM or
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002395"JPEG_APP0 + n" for APPn. (Actually, jpeg_write_marker will let you write
2396any marker type, but we don't recommend writing any other kinds of marker.)
2397For example, to write a user comment string pointed to by comment_text:
2398 jpeg_write_marker(cinfo, JPEG_COM, comment_text, strlen(comment_text));
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002399
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002400If it's not convenient to store all the marker data in memory at once,
2401you can instead call jpeg_write_m_header() followed by multiple calls to
2402jpeg_write_m_byte(). If you do it this way, it's your responsibility to
2403call jpeg_write_m_byte() exactly the number of times given in the length
2404parameter to jpeg_write_m_header(). (This method lets you empty the
2405output buffer partway through a marker, which might be important when
2406using a suspending data destination module. In any case, if you are using
2407a suspending destination, you should flush its buffer after inserting
2408any special markers. See "I/O suspension".)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002409
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002410Or, if you prefer to synthesize the marker byte sequence yourself,
2411you can just cram it straight into the data destination module.
2412
2413If you are writing JFIF 1.02 extension markers (thumbnail images), don't
2414forget to set cinfo.JFIF_minor_version = 2 so that the encoder will write the
2415correct JFIF version number in the JFIF header marker. The library's default
2416is to write version 1.01, but that's wrong if you insert any 1.02 extension
2417markers. (We could probably get away with just defaulting to 1.02, but there
2418used to be broken decoders that would complain about unknown minor version
2419numbers. To reduce compatibility risks it's safest not to write 1.02 unless
2420you are actually using 1.02 extensions.)
2421
2422
2423When reading, two methods of handling special markers are available:
24241. You can ask the library to save the contents of COM and/or APPn markers
2425into memory, and then examine them at your leisure afterwards.
24262. You can supply your own routine to process COM and/or APPn markers
2427on-the-fly as they are read.
2428The first method is simpler to use, especially if you are using a suspending
2429data source; writing a marker processor that copes with input suspension is
2430not easy (consider what happens if the marker is longer than your available
2431input buffer). However, the second method conserves memory since the marker
2432data need not be kept around after it's been processed.
2433
2434For either method, you'd normally set up marker handling after creating a
2435decompression object and before calling jpeg_read_header(), because the
2436markers of interest will typically be near the head of the file and so will
2437be scanned by jpeg_read_header. Once you've established a marker handling
2438method, it will be used for the life of that decompression object
2439(potentially many datastreams), unless you change it. Marker handling is
2440determined separately for COM markers and for each APPn marker code.
2441
2442
2443To save the contents of special markers in memory, call
2444 jpeg_save_markers(cinfo, marker_code, length_limit)
2445where marker_code is the marker type to save, JPEG_COM or JPEG_APP0+n.
2446(To arrange to save all the special marker types, you need to call this
2447routine 17 times, for COM and APP0-APP15.) If the incoming marker is longer
2448than length_limit data bytes, only length_limit bytes will be saved; this
2449parameter allows you to avoid chewing up memory when you only need to see the
2450first few bytes of a potentially large marker. If you want to save all the
2451data, set length_limit to 0xFFFF; that is enough since marker lengths are only
245216 bits. As a special case, setting length_limit to 0 prevents that marker
2453type from being saved at all. (That is the default behavior, in fact.)
2454
2455After jpeg_read_header() completes, you can examine the special markers by
2456following the cinfo->marker_list pointer chain. All the special markers in
2457the file appear in this list, in order of their occurrence in the file (but
2458omitting any markers of types you didn't ask for). Both the original data
2459length and the saved data length are recorded for each list entry; the latter
2460will not exceed length_limit for the particular marker type. Note that these
2461lengths exclude the marker length word, whereas the stored representation
2462within the JPEG file includes it. (Hence the maximum data length is really
2463only 65533.)
2464
2465It is possible that additional special markers appear in the file beyond the
2466SOS marker at which jpeg_read_header stops; if so, the marker list will be
2467extended during reading of the rest of the file. This is not expected to be
2468common, however. If you are short on memory you may want to reset the length
2469limit to zero for all marker types after finishing jpeg_read_header, to
2470ensure that the max_memory_to_use setting cannot be exceeded due to addition
2471of later markers.
2472
2473The marker list remains stored until you call jpeg_finish_decompress or
2474jpeg_abort, at which point the memory is freed and the list is set to empty.
2475(jpeg_destroy also releases the storage, of course.)
2476
2477Note that the library is internally interested in APP0 and APP14 markers;
2478if you try to set a small nonzero length limit on these types, the library
2479will silently force the length up to the minimum it wants. (But you can set
2480a zero length limit to prevent them from being saved at all.) Also, in a
248116-bit environment, the maximum length limit may be constrained to less than
248265533 by malloc() limitations. It is therefore best not to assume that the
2483effective length limit is exactly what you set it to be.
2484
2485
2486If you want to supply your own marker-reading routine, you do it by calling
2487jpeg_set_marker_processor(). A marker processor routine must have the
2488signature
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002489 boolean jpeg_marker_parser_method (j_decompress_ptr cinfo)
2490Although the marker code is not explicitly passed, the routine can find it
2491in cinfo->unread_marker. At the time of call, the marker proper has been
2492read from the data source module. The processor routine is responsible for
2493reading the marker length word and the remaining parameter bytes, if any.
2494Return TRUE to indicate success. (FALSE should be returned only if you are
2495using a suspending data source and it tells you to suspend. See the standard
2496marker processors in jdmarker.c for appropriate coding methods if you need to
2497use a suspending data source.)
2498
2499If you override the default APP0 or APP14 processors, it is up to you to
2500recognize JFIF and Adobe markers if you want colorspace recognition to occur
2501properly. We recommend copying and extending the default processors if you
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002502want to do that. (A better idea is to save these marker types for later
2503examination by calling jpeg_save_markers(); that method doesn't interfere
2504with the library's own processing of these markers.)
2505
2506jpeg_set_marker_processor() and jpeg_save_markers() are mutually exclusive
2507--- if you call one it overrides any previous call to the other, for the
2508particular marker type specified.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002509
2510A simple example of an external COM processor can be found in djpeg.c.
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002511Also, see jpegtran.c for an example of using jpeg_save_markers.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002512
2513
2514Raw (downsampled) image data
2515----------------------------
2516
2517Some applications need to supply already-downsampled image data to the JPEG
2518compressor, or to receive raw downsampled data from the decompressor. The
2519library supports this requirement by allowing the application to write or
2520read raw data, bypassing the normal preprocessing or postprocessing steps.
2521The interface is different from the standard one and is somewhat harder to
2522use. If your interest is merely in bypassing color conversion, we recommend
2523that you use the standard interface and simply set jpeg_color_space =
2524in_color_space (or jpeg_color_space = out_color_space for decompression).
2525The mechanism described in this section is necessary only to supply or
2526receive downsampled image data, in which not all components have the same
2527dimensions.
2528
2529
2530To compress raw data, you must supply the data in the colorspace to be used
2531in the JPEG file (please read the earlier section on Special color spaces)
2532and downsampled to the sampling factors specified in the JPEG parameters.
2533You must supply the data in the format used internally by the JPEG library,
2534namely a JSAMPIMAGE array. This is an array of pointers to two-dimensional
2535arrays, each of type JSAMPARRAY. Each 2-D array holds the values for one
2536color component. This structure is necessary since the components are of
2537different sizes. If the image dimensions are not a multiple of the MCU size,
2538you must also pad the data correctly (usually, this is done by replicating
2539the last column and/or row). The data must be padded to a multiple of a DCT
2540block in each component: that is, each downsampled row must contain a
2541multiple of 8 valid samples, and there must be a multiple of 8 sample rows
2542for each component. (For applications such as conversion of digital TV
2543images, the standard image size is usually a multiple of the DCT block size,
2544so that no padding need actually be done.)
2545
2546The procedure for compression of raw data is basically the same as normal
2547compression, except that you call jpeg_write_raw_data() in place of
2548jpeg_write_scanlines(). Before calling jpeg_start_compress(), you must do
2549the following:
2550 * Set cinfo->raw_data_in to TRUE. (It is set FALSE by jpeg_set_defaults().)
2551 This notifies the library that you will be supplying raw data.
2552 * Ensure jpeg_color_space is correct --- an explicit jpeg_set_colorspace()
2553 call is a good idea. Note that since color conversion is bypassed,
2554 in_color_space is ignored, except that jpeg_set_defaults() uses it to
2555 choose the default jpeg_color_space setting.
2556 * Ensure the sampling factors, cinfo->comp_info[i].h_samp_factor and
2557 cinfo->comp_info[i].v_samp_factor, are correct. Since these indicate the
2558 dimensions of the data you are supplying, it's wise to set them
2559 explicitly, rather than assuming the library's defaults are what you want.
2560
2561To pass raw data to the library, call jpeg_write_raw_data() in place of
2562jpeg_write_scanlines(). The two routines work similarly except that
2563jpeg_write_raw_data takes a JSAMPIMAGE data array rather than JSAMPARRAY.
2564The scanlines count passed to and returned from jpeg_write_raw_data is
2565measured in terms of the component with the largest v_samp_factor.
2566
2567jpeg_write_raw_data() processes one MCU row per call, which is to say
2568v_samp_factor*DCTSIZE sample rows of each component. The passed num_lines
2569value must be at least max_v_samp_factor*DCTSIZE, and the return value will
2570be exactly that amount (or possibly some multiple of that amount, in future
2571library versions). This is true even on the last call at the bottom of the
2572image; don't forget to pad your data as necessary.
2573
2574The required dimensions of the supplied data can be computed for each
2575component as
2576 cinfo->comp_info[i].width_in_blocks*DCTSIZE samples per row
2577 cinfo->comp_info[i].height_in_blocks*DCTSIZE rows in image
2578after jpeg_start_compress() has initialized those fields. If the valid data
2579is smaller than this, it must be padded appropriately. For some sampling
2580factors and image sizes, additional dummy DCT blocks are inserted to make
2581the image a multiple of the MCU dimensions. The library creates such dummy
2582blocks itself; it does not read them from your supplied data. Therefore you
2583need never pad by more than DCTSIZE samples. An example may help here.
2584Assume 2h2v downsampling of YCbCr data, that is
2585 cinfo->comp_info[0].h_samp_factor = 2 for Y
2586 cinfo->comp_info[0].v_samp_factor = 2
2587 cinfo->comp_info[1].h_samp_factor = 1 for Cb
2588 cinfo->comp_info[1].v_samp_factor = 1
2589 cinfo->comp_info[2].h_samp_factor = 1 for Cr
2590 cinfo->comp_info[2].v_samp_factor = 1
2591and suppose that the nominal image dimensions (cinfo->image_width and
2592cinfo->image_height) are 101x101 pixels. Then jpeg_start_compress() will
2593compute downsampled_width = 101 and width_in_blocks = 13 for Y,
2594downsampled_width = 51 and width_in_blocks = 7 for Cb and Cr (and the same
2595for the height fields). You must pad the Y data to at least 13*8 = 104
2596columns and rows, the Cb/Cr data to at least 7*8 = 56 columns and rows. The
2597MCU height is max_v_samp_factor = 2 DCT rows so you must pass at least 16
2598scanlines on each call to jpeg_write_raw_data(), which is to say 16 actual
2599sample rows of Y and 8 each of Cb and Cr. A total of 7 MCU rows are needed,
2600so you must pass a total of 7*16 = 112 "scanlines". The last DCT block row
2601of Y data is dummy, so it doesn't matter what you pass for it in the data
2602arrays, but the scanlines count must total up to 112 so that all of the Cb
2603and Cr data gets passed.
2604
Thomas G. Lanea8b67c41995-03-15 00:00:00 +00002605Output suspension is supported with raw-data compression: if the data
2606destination module suspends, jpeg_write_raw_data() will return 0.
2607In this case the same data rows must be passed again on the next call.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002608
2609
2610Decompression with raw data output implies bypassing all postprocessing:
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002611you cannot ask for rescaling or color quantization, for instance. More
2612seriously, you must deal with the color space and sampling factors present in
2613the incoming file. If your application only handles, say, 2h1v YCbCr data,
2614you must check for and fail on other color spaces or other sampling factors.
2615The library will not convert to a different color space for you.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002616
2617To obtain raw data output, set cinfo->raw_data_out = TRUE before
2618jpeg_start_decompress() (it is set FALSE by jpeg_read_header()). Be sure to
2619verify that the color space and sampling factors are ones you can handle.
2620Then call jpeg_read_raw_data() in place of jpeg_read_scanlines(). The
2621decompression process is otherwise the same as usual.
2622
2623jpeg_read_raw_data() returns one MCU row per call, and thus you must pass a
2624buffer of at least max_v_samp_factor*DCTSIZE scanlines (scanline counting is
2625the same as for raw-data compression). The buffer you pass must be large
2626enough to hold the actual data plus padding to DCT-block boundaries. As with
2627compression, any entirely dummy DCT blocks are not processed so you need not
2628allocate space for them, but the total scanline count includes them. The
2629above example of computing buffer dimensions for raw-data compression is
2630equally valid for decompression.
2631
2632Input suspension is supported with raw-data decompression: if the data source
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002633module suspends, jpeg_read_raw_data() will return 0. You can also use
2634buffered-image mode to read raw data in multiple passes.
2635
2636
2637Really raw data: DCT coefficients
2638---------------------------------
2639
2640It is possible to read or write the contents of a JPEG file as raw DCT
2641coefficients. This facility is mainly intended for use in lossless
2642transcoding between different JPEG file formats. Other possible applications
2643include lossless cropping of a JPEG image, lossless reassembly of a
2644multi-strip or multi-tile TIFF/JPEG file into a single JPEG datastream, etc.
2645
2646To read the contents of a JPEG file as DCT coefficients, open the file and do
2647jpeg_read_header() as usual. But instead of calling jpeg_start_decompress()
2648and jpeg_read_scanlines(), call jpeg_read_coefficients(). This will read the
2649entire image into a set of virtual coefficient-block arrays, one array per
2650component. The return value is a pointer to an array of virtual-array
2651descriptors. Each virtual array can be accessed directly using the JPEG
2652memory manager's access_virt_barray method (see Memory management, below,
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +00002653and also read structure.txt's discussion of virtual array handling). Or,
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002654for simple transcoding to a different JPEG file format, the array list can
2655just be handed directly to jpeg_write_coefficients().
2656
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002657Each block in the block arrays contains quantized coefficient values in
2658normal array order (not JPEG zigzag order). The block arrays contain only
2659DCT blocks containing real data; any entirely-dummy blocks added to fill out
2660interleaved MCUs at the right or bottom edges of the image are discarded
2661during reading and are not stored in the block arrays. (The size of each
2662block array can be determined from the width_in_blocks and height_in_blocks
2663fields of the component's comp_info entry.) This is also the data format
2664expected by jpeg_write_coefficients().
2665
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002666When you are done using the virtual arrays, call jpeg_finish_decompress()
2667to release the array storage and return the decompression object to an idle
2668state; or just call jpeg_destroy() if you don't need to reuse the object.
2669
2670If you use a suspending data source, jpeg_read_coefficients() will return
2671NULL if it is forced to suspend; a non-NULL return value indicates successful
2672completion. You need not test for a NULL return value when using a
2673non-suspending data source.
2674
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002675It is also possible to call jpeg_read_coefficients() to obtain access to the
2676decoder's coefficient arrays during a normal decode cycle in buffered-image
2677mode. This frammish might be useful for progressively displaying an incoming
2678image and then re-encoding it without loss. To do this, decode in buffered-
2679image mode as discussed previously, then call jpeg_read_coefficients() after
2680the last jpeg_finish_output() call. The arrays will be available for your use
2681until you call jpeg_finish_decompress().
2682
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002683
2684To write the contents of a JPEG file as DCT coefficients, you must provide
2685the DCT coefficients stored in virtual block arrays. You can either pass
2686block arrays read from an input JPEG file by jpeg_read_coefficients(), or
2687allocate virtual arrays from the JPEG compression object and fill them
2688yourself. In either case, jpeg_write_coefficients() is substituted for
2689jpeg_start_compress() and jpeg_write_scanlines(). Thus the sequence is
2690 * Create compression object
2691 * Set all compression parameters as necessary
2692 * Request virtual arrays if needed
2693 * jpeg_write_coefficients()
2694 * jpeg_finish_compress()
2695 * Destroy or re-use compression object
2696jpeg_write_coefficients() is passed a pointer to an array of virtual block
2697array descriptors; the number of arrays is equal to cinfo.num_components.
2698
2699The virtual arrays need only have been requested, not realized, before
2700jpeg_write_coefficients() is called. A side-effect of
2701jpeg_write_coefficients() is to realize any virtual arrays that have been
2702requested from the compression object's memory manager. Thus, when obtaining
2703the virtual arrays from the compression object, you should fill the arrays
2704after calling jpeg_write_coefficients(). The data is actually written out
2705when you call jpeg_finish_compress(); jpeg_write_coefficients() only writes
2706the file header.
2707
2708When writing raw DCT coefficients, it is crucial that the JPEG quantization
2709tables and sampling factors match the way the data was encoded, or the
2710resulting file will be invalid. For transcoding from an existing JPEG file,
2711we recommend using jpeg_copy_critical_parameters(). This routine initializes
2712all the compression parameters to default values (like jpeg_set_defaults()),
2713then copies the critical information from a source decompression object.
2714The decompression object should have just been used to read the entire
2715JPEG input file --- that is, it should be awaiting jpeg_finish_decompress().
2716
2717jpeg_write_coefficients() marks all tables stored in the compression object
2718as needing to be written to the output file (thus, it acts like
2719jpeg_start_compress(cinfo, TRUE)). This is for safety's sake, to avoid
2720emitting abbreviated JPEG files by accident. If you really want to emit an
2721abbreviated JPEG file, call jpeg_suppress_tables(), or set the tables'
2722individual sent_table flags, between calling jpeg_write_coefficients() and
2723jpeg_finish_compress().
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002724
2725
2726Progress monitoring
2727-------------------
2728
2729Some applications may need to regain control from the JPEG library every so
2730often. The typical use of this feature is to produce a percent-done bar or
2731other progress display. (For a simple example, see cjpeg.c or djpeg.c.)
2732Although you do get control back frequently during the data-transferring pass
2733(the jpeg_read_scanlines or jpeg_write_scanlines loop), any additional passes
2734will occur inside jpeg_finish_compress or jpeg_start_decompress; those
2735routines may take a long time to execute, and you don't get control back
2736until they are done.
2737
2738You can define a progress-monitor routine which will be called periodically
2739by the library. No guarantees are made about how often this call will occur,
2740so we don't recommend you use it for mouse tracking or anything like that.
2741At present, a call will occur once per MCU row, scanline, or sample row
2742group, whichever unit is convenient for the current processing mode; so the
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002743wider the image, the longer the time between calls. During the data
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002744transferring pass, only one call occurs per call of jpeg_read_scanlines or
2745jpeg_write_scanlines, so don't pass a large number of scanlines at once if
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002746you want fine resolution in the progress count. (If you really need to use
2747the callback mechanism for time-critical tasks like mouse tracking, you could
2748insert additional calls inside some of the library's inner loops.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002749
2750To establish a progress-monitor callback, create a struct jpeg_progress_mgr,
2751fill in its progress_monitor field with a pointer to your callback routine,
2752and set cinfo->progress to point to the struct. The callback will be called
2753whenever cinfo->progress is non-NULL. (This pointer is set to NULL by
2754jpeg_create_compress or jpeg_create_decompress; the library will not change
2755it thereafter. So if you allocate dynamic storage for the progress struct,
2756make sure it will live as long as the JPEG object does. Allocating from the
2757JPEG memory manager with lifetime JPOOL_PERMANENT will work nicely.) You
2758can use the same callback routine for both compression and decompression.
2759
2760The jpeg_progress_mgr struct contains four fields which are set by the library:
2761 long pass_counter; /* work units completed in this pass */
2762 long pass_limit; /* total number of work units in this pass */
2763 int completed_passes; /* passes completed so far */
2764 int total_passes; /* total number of passes expected */
2765During any one pass, pass_counter increases from 0 up to (not including)
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002766pass_limit; the step size is usually but not necessarily 1. The pass_limit
2767value may change from one pass to another. The expected total number of
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002768passes is in total_passes, and the number of passes already completed is in
2769completed_passes. Thus the fraction of work completed may be estimated as
2770 completed_passes + (pass_counter/pass_limit)
2771 --------------------------------------------
2772 total_passes
2773ignoring the fact that the passes may not be equal amounts of work.
2774
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002775When decompressing, pass_limit can even change within a pass, because it
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002776depends on the number of scans in the JPEG file, which isn't always known in
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002777advance. The computed fraction-of-work-done may jump suddenly (if the library
2778discovers it has overestimated the number of scans) or even decrease (in the
2779opposite case). It is not wise to put great faith in the work estimate.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002780
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002781When using the decompressor's buffered-image mode, the progress monitor work
2782estimate is likely to be completely unhelpful, because the library has no way
2783to know how many output passes will be demanded of it. Currently, the library
2784sets total_passes based on the assumption that there will be one more output
2785pass if the input file end hasn't yet been read (jpeg_input_complete() isn't
2786TRUE), but no more output passes if the file end has been reached when the
2787output pass is started. This means that total_passes will rise as additional
2788output passes are requested. If you have a way of determining the input file
2789size, estimating progress based on the fraction of the file that's been read
2790will probably be more useful than using the library's value.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002791
2792
2793Memory management
2794-----------------
2795
2796This section covers some key facts about the JPEG library's built-in memory
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +00002797manager. For more info, please read structure.txt's section about the memory
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002798manager, and consult the source code if necessary.
2799
2800All memory and temporary file allocation within the library is done via the
2801memory manager. If necessary, you can replace the "back end" of the memory
2802manager to control allocation yourself (for example, if you don't want the
2803library to use malloc() and free() for some reason).
2804
2805Some data is allocated "permanently" and will not be freed until the JPEG
2806object is destroyed. Most data is allocated "per image" and is freed by
2807jpeg_finish_compress, jpeg_finish_decompress, or jpeg_abort. You can call the
2808memory manager yourself to allocate structures that will automatically be
2809freed at these times. Typical code for this is
2810 ptr = (*cinfo->mem->alloc_small) ((j_common_ptr) cinfo, JPOOL_IMAGE, size);
2811Use JPOOL_PERMANENT to get storage that lasts as long as the JPEG object.
2812Use alloc_large instead of alloc_small for anything bigger than a few Kbytes.
2813There are also alloc_sarray and alloc_barray routines that automatically
2814build 2-D sample or block arrays.
2815
2816The library's minimum space requirements to process an image depend on the
2817image's width, but not on its height, because the library ordinarily works
2818with "strip" buffers that are as wide as the image but just a few rows high.
2819Some operating modes (eg, two-pass color quantization) require full-image
2820buffers. Such buffers are treated as "virtual arrays": only the current strip
2821need be in memory, and the rest can be swapped out to a temporary file.
2822
2823If you use the simplest memory manager back end (jmemnobs.c), then no
2824temporary files are used; virtual arrays are simply malloc()'d. Images bigger
2825than memory can be processed only if your system supports virtual memory.
2826The other memory manager back ends support temporary files of various flavors
2827and thus work in machines without virtual memory. They may also be useful on
2828Unix machines if you need to process images that exceed available swap space.
2829
2830When using temporary files, the library will make the in-memory buffers for
2831its virtual arrays just big enough to stay within a "maximum memory" setting.
2832Your application can set this limit by setting cinfo->mem->max_memory_to_use
2833after creating the JPEG object. (Of course, there is still a minimum size for
2834the buffers, so the max-memory setting is effective only if it is bigger than
2835the minimum space needed.) If you allocate any large structures yourself, you
2836must allocate them before jpeg_start_compress() or jpeg_start_decompress() in
2837order to have them counted against the max memory limit. Also keep in mind
2838that space allocated with alloc_small() is ignored, on the assumption that
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +00002839it's too small to be worth worrying about; so a reasonable safety margin
2840should be left when setting max_memory_to_use.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002841
2842If you use the jmemname.c or jmemdos.c memory manager back end, it is
2843important to clean up the JPEG object properly to ensure that the temporary
2844files get deleted. (This is especially crucial with jmemdos.c, where the
2845"temporary files" may be extended-memory segments; if they are not freed,
2846DOS will require a reboot to recover the memory.) Thus, with these memory
2847managers, it's a good idea to provide a signal handler that will trap any
2848early exit from your program. The handler should call either jpeg_abort()
2849or jpeg_destroy() for any active JPEG objects. A handler is not needed with
Thomas G. Lane489583f1996-02-07 00:00:00 +00002850jmemnobs.c, and shouldn't be necessary with jmemansi.c or jmemmac.c either,
2851since the C library is supposed to take care of deleting files made with
2852tmpfile().
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002853
2854
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002855Memory usage
2856------------
2857
2858Working memory requirements while performing compression or decompression
2859depend on image dimensions, image characteristics (such as colorspace and
2860JPEG process), and operating mode (application-selected options).
2861
2862As of v6b, the decompressor requires:
2863 1. About 24K in more-or-less-fixed-size data. This varies a bit depending
2864 on operating mode and image characteristics (particularly color vs.
2865 grayscale), but it doesn't depend on image dimensions.
2866 2. Strip buffers (of size proportional to the image width) for IDCT and
2867 upsampling results. The worst case for commonly used sampling factors
2868 is about 34 bytes * width in pixels for a color image. A grayscale image
2869 only needs about 8 bytes per pixel column.
2870 3. A full-image DCT coefficient buffer is needed to decode a multi-scan JPEG
2871 file (including progressive JPEGs), or whenever you select buffered-image
2872 mode. This takes 2 bytes/coefficient. At typical 2x2 sampling, that's
2873 3 bytes per pixel for a color image. Worst case (1x1 sampling) requires
2874 6 bytes/pixel. For grayscale, figure 2 bytes/pixel.
2875 4. To perform 2-pass color quantization, the decompressor also needs a
2876 128K color lookup table and a full-image pixel buffer (3 bytes/pixel).
2877This does not count any memory allocated by the application, such as a
2878buffer to hold the final output image.
2879
2880The above figures are valid for 8-bit JPEG data precision and a machine with
288132-bit ints. For 12-bit JPEG data, double the size of the strip buffers and
2882quantization pixel buffer. The "fixed-size" data will be somewhat smaller
2883with 16-bit ints, larger with 64-bit ints. Also, CMYK or other unusual
2884color spaces will require different amounts of space.
2885
2886The full-image coefficient and pixel buffers, if needed at all, do not
2887have to be fully RAM resident; you can have the library use temporary
2888files instead when the total memory usage would exceed a limit you set.
2889(But if your OS supports virtual memory, it's probably better to just use
2890jmemnobs and let the OS do the swapping.)
2891
2892The compressor's memory requirements are similar, except that it has no need
2893for color quantization. Also, it needs a full-image DCT coefficient buffer
2894if Huffman-table optimization is asked for, even if progressive mode is not
2895requested.
2896
2897If you need more detailed information about memory usage in a particular
2898situation, you can enable the MEM_STATS code in jmemmgr.c.
2899
2900
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002901Library compile-time options
2902----------------------------
2903
2904A number of compile-time options are available by modifying jmorecfg.h.
2905
2906The JPEG standard provides for both the baseline 8-bit DCT process and
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002907a 12-bit DCT process. The IJG code supports 12-bit lossy JPEG if you define
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002908BITS_IN_JSAMPLE as 12 rather than 8. Note that this causes JSAMPLE to be
2909larger than a char, so it affects the surrounding application's image data.
Thomas G. Lane9ba2f5e1994-12-07 00:00:00 +00002910The sample applications cjpeg and djpeg can support 12-bit mode only for PPM
2911and GIF file formats; you must disable the other file formats to compile a
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +0000291212-bit cjpeg or djpeg. (install.txt has more information about that.)
Thomas G. Lanea8b67c41995-03-15 00:00:00 +00002913At present, a 12-bit library can handle *only* 12-bit images, not both
2914precisions. (If you need to include both 8- and 12-bit libraries in a single
2915application, you could probably do it by defining NEED_SHORT_EXTERNAL_NAMES
2916for just one of the copies. You'd have to access the 8-bit and 12-bit copies
2917from separate application source files. This is untested ... if you try it,
2918we'd like to hear whether it works!)
2919
2920Note that a 12-bit library always compresses in Huffman optimization mode,
2921in order to generate valid Huffman tables. This is necessary because our
2922default Huffman tables only cover 8-bit data. If you need to output 12-bit
2923files in one pass, you'll have to supply suitable default Huffman tables.
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002924You may also want to supply your own DCT quantization tables; the existing
2925quality-scaling code has been developed for 8-bit use, and probably doesn't
2926generate especially good tables for 12-bit.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002927
2928The maximum number of components (color channels) in the image is determined
2929by MAX_COMPONENTS. The JPEG standard allows up to 255 components, but we
2930expect that few applications will need more than four or so.
2931
2932On machines with unusual data type sizes, you may be able to improve
2933performance or reduce memory space by tweaking the various typedefs in
2934jmorecfg.h. In particular, on some RISC CPUs, access to arrays of "short"s
2935is quite slow; consider trading memory for speed by making JCOEF, INT16, and
2936UINT16 be "int" or "unsigned int". UINT8 is also a candidate to become int.
2937You probably don't want to make JSAMPLE be int unless you have lots of memory
2938to burn.
2939
2940You can reduce the size of the library by compiling out various optional
2941functions. To do this, undefine xxx_SUPPORTED symbols as necessary.
2942
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002943You can also save a few K by not having text error messages in the library;
2944the standard error message table occupies about 5Kb. This is particularly
2945reasonable for embedded applications where there's no good way to display
2946a message anyway. To do this, remove the creation of the message table
2947(jpeg_std_message_table[]) from jerror.c, and alter format_message to do
2948something reasonable without it. You could output the numeric value of the
2949message code number, for example. If you do this, you can also save a couple
2950more K by modifying the TRACEMSn() macros in jerror.h to expand to nothing;
2951you don't need trace capability anyway, right?
2952
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002953
2954Portability considerations
2955--------------------------
2956
2957The JPEG library has been written to be extremely portable; the sample
2958applications cjpeg and djpeg are slightly less so. This section summarizes
2959the design goals in this area. (If you encounter any bugs that cause the
2960library to be less portable than is claimed here, we'd appreciate hearing
2961about them.)
2962
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00002963The code works fine on ANSI C, C++, and pre-ANSI C compilers, using any of
2964the popular system include file setups, and some not-so-popular ones too.
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +00002965See install.txt for configuration procedures.
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00002966
2967The code is not dependent on the exact sizes of the C data types. As
2968distributed, we make the assumptions that
2969 char is at least 8 bits wide
2970 short is at least 16 bits wide
2971 int is at least 16 bits wide
2972 long is at least 32 bits wide
2973(These are the minimum requirements of the ANSI C standard.) Wider types will
2974work fine, although memory may be used inefficiently if char is much larger
2975than 8 bits or short is much bigger than 16 bits. The code should work
2976equally well with 16- or 32-bit ints.
2977
2978In a system where these assumptions are not met, you may be able to make the
2979code work by modifying the typedefs in jmorecfg.h. However, you will probably
2980have difficulty if int is less than 16 bits wide, since references to plain
2981int abound in the code.
2982
2983char can be either signed or unsigned, although the code runs faster if an
2984unsigned char type is available. If char is wider than 8 bits, you will need
2985to redefine JOCTET and/or provide custom data source/destination managers so
2986that JOCTET represents exactly 8 bits of data on external storage.
2987
2988The JPEG library proper does not assume ASCII representation of characters.
2989But some of the image file I/O modules in cjpeg/djpeg do have ASCII
2990dependencies in file-header manipulation; so does cjpeg's select_file_type()
2991routine.
2992
2993The JPEG library does not rely heavily on the C library. In particular, C
2994stdio is used only by the data source/destination modules and the error
2995handler, all of which are application-replaceable. (cjpeg/djpeg are more
2996heavily dependent on stdio.) malloc and free are called only from the memory
2997manager "back end" module, so you can use a different memory allocator by
2998replacing that one file.
2999
3000The code generally assumes that C names must be unique in the first 15
3001characters. However, global function names can be made unique in the
3002first 6 characters by defining NEED_SHORT_EXTERNAL_NAMES.
3003
Guido Vollbeding5996a252009-06-27 00:00:00 +00003004More info about porting the code may be gleaned by reading jconfig.txt,
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00003005jmorecfg.h, and jinclude.h.
3006
3007
3008Notes for MS-DOS implementors
3009-----------------------------
3010
3011The IJG code is designed to work efficiently in 80x86 "small" or "medium"
3012memory models (i.e., data pointers are 16 bits unless explicitly declared
3013"far"; code pointers can be either size). You may be able to use small
3014model to compile cjpeg or djpeg by itself, but you will probably have to use
3015medium model for any larger application. This won't make much difference in
3016performance. You *will* take a noticeable performance hit if you use a
3017large-data memory model (perhaps 10%-25%), and you should avoid "huge" model
3018if at all possible.
3019
3020The JPEG library typically needs 2Kb-3Kb of stack space. It will also
3021malloc about 20K-30K of near heap space while executing (and lots of far
3022heap, but that doesn't count in this calculation). This figure will vary
3023depending on selected operating mode, and to a lesser extent on image size.
Thomas G. Lane9ba2f5e1994-12-07 00:00:00 +00003024There is also about 5Kb-6Kb of constant data which will be allocated in the
3025near data segment (about 4Kb of this is the error message table).
3026Thus you have perhaps 20K available for other modules' static data and near
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00003027heap space before you need to go to a larger memory model. The C library's
3028static data will account for several K of this, but that still leaves a good
3029deal for your needs. (If you are tight on space, you could reduce the sizes
3030of the I/O buffers allocated by jdatasrc.c and jdatadst.c, say from 4K to
Thomas G. Lanebc79e061995-08-02 00:00:00 +000030311K. Another possibility is to move the error message table to far memory;
3032this should be doable with only localized hacking on jerror.c.)
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00003033
3034About 2K of the near heap space is "permanent" memory that will not be
3035released until you destroy the JPEG object. This is only an issue if you
3036save a JPEG object between compression or decompression operations.
3037
3038Far data space may also be a tight resource when you are dealing with large
3039images. The most memory-intensive case is decompression with two-pass color
3040quantization, or single-pass quantization to an externally supplied color
3041map. This requires a 128Kb color lookup table plus strip buffers amounting
Thomas G. Lane5ead57a1998-03-27 00:00:00 +00003042to about 40 bytes per column for typical sampling ratios (eg, about 25600
Thomas G. Lane36a4ccc1994-09-24 00:00:00 +00003043bytes for a 640-pixel-wide image). You may not be able to process wide
3044images if you have large data structures of your own.
3045
3046Of course, all of these concerns vanish if you use a 32-bit flat-memory-model
3047compiler, such as DJGPP or Watcom C. We highly recommend flat model if you
3048can use it; the JPEG library is significantly faster in flat model.